Re: Change password with usermod

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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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