whither 1.00's "passwd -p ..." ?
Denis Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 4 13:13:38 UTC 2007
On 7/3/07, Jim Freeman <jfree at sovereign.org> wrote:
> busybox 1.00 (and other versions?) had a "-p" option to allow setting
> a user's password bypassing the interactive mode
>
> # passwd fu
> Changing password for fu
> New password:
> Retype password:
> Password for fu changed by root
>
> vs.
> # passwd -p **** blip
> Setting password for blip
> Password changed.
I just downloaded and built busybox 1.00. passwd does not have -p option there.
I would rather add separate applet for non-interactive password
change. I even have one somewhere on home machine...
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