popen2 + passwd

[Radovan Garabik]

Jp Calderone <exarkun at flashmail.com> wrote:
 : Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work?

 : import popen2

 : i, o = popen2.popen2('passwd bin')
 : pwd = '12345ASD'
 : o.write(pwd + '\n')
 : o.write(pwd + '\n')
 : i.close()
 : o.close()

 :  Running it through the interpreter yields no output (as it should),
 : but the password for the bin user doesn't change to what I'd expect
 : it to (12345ASD), but to something else.


how do you know it changed to something else?

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