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From: "Mário Gamito" <gamito@gmail.com>
To: Krzysztof Dubowik <kite@interia.pl>, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change password with usermod
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:05:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F29F22.9070902@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <esu6am$4rg$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

Thank you for your answer.

> usermod needs a login name rather than the userid and you don't need -u
> option:
> 
> # usermod -p $PASS postgres
I tried that but didn't work for me:
"[root@mail ~]# usermod -p $PASS postgres
usage: usermod  [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [[-a] -G group,...]
                 [-d home [-m]] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-l new_name]
                 [-f inactive] [-e expire ] [-p passwd] [-L|-U] name"


> However, I usually user chpasswd to change the password from a script, so
> your script becomes:
> 
> # echo postgres:secret | chpasswd
But this does :)

Thanks a bunch.

Warm Regards,
Mário Gamito
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-10 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-10 10:42 Change password with usermod Mário Gamito
2007-03-10 10:56 ` Mário Gamito
2007-03-10 11:55 ` Krzysztof Dubowik
2007-03-10 12:05   ` Mário Gamito [this message]
2007-03-10 21:42   ` Ian Ward Comfort
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-10  9:53 Mário Gamito

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