8 Jun
2000
8 Jun
'00
21:17
On 31 May, Richard Naylor <ranaylor@ntlworld.com> wrote:
i think that there is a good way to set passwds using the mkpasswd program. i had forgotten about it when i first posted. sorry!
try this
cat users.csv | tr "," "\n" | xargs -i /usr/bin/mkpasswd {} | tr "\n" "," > passwords
Sorry for the delay in replying. Finally got round to trying this but all I get is an error /usr/sbin/mkpasswd: no DBM database on system - no action performed I have no idea what a DBM database is - any ideas?