whither 1.00's "passwd -p ..." ?

[Jim Freeman]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:13:38PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Jim Freeman <jfree at sovereign.org> wrote:
> >busybox 1.00 (and other versions?) had a "-p" option to allow setting
> >a user's password bypassing the interactive mode
...
> >        # passwd -p **** blip
> >        Setting password for blip
> >        Password changed.
> 
> I just downloaded and built busybox 1.00. passwd does not have -p option 
> there.

Yeesh - my (very) bad.  Looks like this was an in-house change
(derivative of "useradd -p"), then re-tar'd with the same name
so namewise it was indistinguishable from the upstream.
Apologies!  (slinks away in search of brown paper bag ...)


> I would rather add separate applet for non-interactive password
> change. I even have one somewhere on home machine...

http://dns.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/changes/changes-1.9r22.html
has "-P" for from a pipe:

	The passwd command supplied with Linuxconf has been enhanced
		...
		passwd -P user_account
			Change the password from a pipe
			echo new_passwd | passwd -P user_account


or BSD's "pw" looks like it will take it from a pipe:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-April/146507.html

or, as in my original mail, "ptyget" can be wrestled into doing
something useful ...