Change password on Linux

[Alvaro Figueiredo]

Em Qui 22 Mai 2003 14:20, Antonios Christofides escreveu:
> Bo M. Maryniuck wrote:
> > > Does anyone know how to change a Linux password using Python?
> >
> >  1. Tweak /etc/shadow if you're experienced Linux admin
> >  2. os.popen() and passwd command
>
> I don't think you can do it with os.popen(); passwd does not read
> the password from stdin. You can do it with expect or pexpect. If
> you prefer a standard module, you can use telnetlib to telnet
> localhost.

passwd --stdin username

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