Comments on: FreeBSD Change User Password Shell Script

By: syed

syed — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:19:08 +0000

solved you problem.

By: Aneesh Kumar. E.P

Aneesh Kumar. E.P — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:06:40 +0000

Thank you for valuable help. i have solved my problem.

Thank you all

By: chr15

chr15 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:05:53 +0000

Aneesh Kumar. E.P,

you should try something like this:

useradd -m -d /home/$USER -s $SHELL $USER >/dev/null 2>&1
echo -n $PASSWORD | passwd –stdin $USER

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:40:17 +0000

@Aneesh See this post

@Shoaibi: thanks for the heads-up!

By: Shoaibi

Shoaibi — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:19:18 +0000

hmmm…. spell mistake at line 13:
“Add a bew user” => “Add a new user”

By: Aneesh Kumar. E.P

Aneesh Kumar. E.P — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:02:47 +0000

Hi all,

How can i achieve the same thing in centos system. When I tried i couldn’t find the pw in my system. I have to download the rpm but i failed to find a rpm for pw command. Please help me