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jago25_98 10-08-2004 07:37 AM

Change password without typing?;
 
I feel I should assume that my company runs keyloggers at work. I'm fine with this but I would like to change my password everytime I log in. I can't do this by typing of course though.

So how can I change my password without typing it? - I've ruled out ssh keyauth for same reasons as above.

The only stumbling I have is getting /sbin/passwd to set a passwd from sdin (grepped from a file of pre-selected paswords).

I've also thought about trying to encrypt a password (with chpasswd or mcrypt?) and replace it in /etc/shadow though this is not ideal as it might go very wrong; backups of /etc/shadow a good idea!.

I feel this is a very simple thing and I'm amazed it seems as if it hasn't been done before.

(I asked a similar question before but I thought I'd simplify the question:
older more detailed thread )

fposwest 10-08-2004 06:12 PM

The man page for passwd give us...

--stdin
This option is used to indicate that passwd should read the new
password from standard input, which can be a pipe.

Isn't this exactly the question you asked?


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