Am Montag, 21. Juli 2003 11:37 schrieb mailinglists:

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Sorry, that should read "passwd <username>". No input redirection...

Thanks. That does the work I need. Strange that this wasn't implemented in the usermod command. Maybe from some historical reason.

Philipp

I think, it's because any user might see the commandline with the unencrypted password via ps jax -command ;-) Roland