Changing user password from command line

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday,  2 August 2006 at 15:53:07 +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 12:48, Mike Fern wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from
>> command line?
>> We can add a user using single line pw (pw useradd), but i need
>> ability to set the password also, instead of old command "passwd user"
>> and then writing to stdin.
>
> man pw
>
> Look for -h option description.

The advantage of using passwd(1) is that it is available on all
UNIX-like systems (pw(8) isn't), and that it's easier to use.

Greg
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