Hi,

I am working on a project that needs among other things to create Linux users, and then set a password for them.

One way to do this is to use a program that can read the password from stdin and just wrap around it, for example
echo "testusers:test" | chpasswd will change testuser's password to test on Slackware.
Likewize redhat likes have a version of passwd that takes a --stdin option, so you can do
echo "test" | passwd --stdin testuser
Both these can only be run by root of course.

The problem is no system seems to support both, and I need maximum distribution indepedance. Has anybody else done a frontend for user management or similiar system ? Can anyone tell me how to set a user's password in a distribution independant way ?

TIA
A.J.

Erm, obviously I need a way to do that in pascal, I think that got left out of the message <blush>
A.J.

libc unit. putpwent() and friends.
in the FPC sources, see packages/base/libc/pwdh.inc for all functions.

Michael.