setting the password of a automatically created account

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a port that needs to create a a user of a given name and a given
> default password... I found in the porters guide how to make the account
> but not set the password
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 this isn't the official way I'm sure, but a dirty hack could be:
echo password123 | pw usermod mynewuser -h 0 2>&1

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Sam Fourman Jr.