On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 07:18:58PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > # echo "ozzy" | passwd --stdin <username> # assign a new password if > you want And possibly a bit more secure if you have users logged into the main password server: NAME chpasswd - update password file in batch DESCRIPTION chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard input and uses this information to update a group of existing users. -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu