Changing user password from command line

[Micah]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> 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.

pw's ability to alter password files in directories other than /etc 
comes in handy sometimes. Unless there's an undocumented way to do this 
with passwd.

- Micah