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From: | Barry deFreese |
Subject: | [Bug-sysutils] Non-interactive password entry |
Date: | Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:02:09 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) |
Hi folks,I was (am) looking at both mkuser taking a file as input and/or adding chuser (with limitations). However, as far as I can tell, all of our other programs that manipulate passwords do so interactively. Obviously I can fake this but with Ben's new libpasswd does it make sense to extend setpasswd to take password as a param or maybe create a mirror function that works non-interactively and accepts password as a parm? The other question there that I don't know the answer to is: Is there a security risk in doing so? (Of course I'm not sure it could be any more of a risk that the passwords sitting in the input file?)
Thanks! Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)
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