[Twisted-Python] changing password remotely with twisted.conch
Tommi Virtanen
tv at twistedmatrix.com
Tue Oct 12 12:47:14 MDT 2004
jean-marc.pouchoulon at ac-montpellier.fr wrote:
> Due to specificity of passwd command, I am not sure it's a goof idea to
> do that but I try to change the root password on remote machine as I
> can do it with pexpect
It's a horrible idea. Even worse when combined with expect.
If you insist on doing that, you should look at chpasswd. Preferably
with the -e option.
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