Need some help please

[Lowel Stern]

On 21 Jul 2002 01:11:27 +0200, Chris Liechti <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote:

>Arneau Starl <as at ctes.com> wrote in 
>news:2j2hju8c1btu76tu896cuc9qg6oeep9uoi at 4ax.com:
>...
>> I cannot figure out a way to do the password
>> without Expect (which I cannot install on that machine).  Is there a
>> way around this?
>
>you could modify /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow with your script. there is the 
>"crypt" module in the stdlib to encode passwords and return a string which 
>you can use.
>i'm sure thats not the recomended way to do it. maybe someone else comes up 
>with a better solution.
>
>chris
  I needed to do this (run passwd command) from python also.  This
cannot work as you specified.  You need to use expect or it won't
work.


LS