SystemInstaller::Passwd(3pm)

SystemInstaller::Passwd3pm

A library to modify passwd files from perl

Usage

  use SystemInstaller::Passwd qw(update_user);
  update_user(
              imagepath => '/var/lib/systemimager/image/image1',
              user => 'root',
              password => 'yourmoma'
             );

Overview

This library uses the usermod command to set the password for a user within an image. They password given is encrypted using crypt and then passed to usermod.

Methods

update_user(%variables)

Changelog

$Log: Passwd.pm,v $ Revision 1.8 2002/06/12 15:34:35 mchasal Use usermod for password setting.

Revision 1.7 2001/10/09 15:36:57 sdague added better error messages if password files can't be opened

Revision 1.6 2001/09/04 17:04:22 sdague updated shadow passwd fields

Revision 1.5 2001/08/31 17:51:08 sdague added some more stub documentation

Revision 1.4 2001/08/31 17:46:43 sdague added version and changelog to SystemInstaller::Passwd

Releases

2 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0

Authors

  Sean Dague <[email protected]>, Michael Chase-Salerno <[email protected]>

From systeminstaller 1.04-3 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.