Shell script

[Jason Clinton]

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| I can't speak to the scripting, but this is news to me. I have used
| passwd to change my password in gentoo. passwd is smart enough to know
| whether the password is a shadowed password or not. So it is irrelevant
| as to where the password is stored. In fact, I thought it was pretty
| standard anymore for Linux distros to use shadow passwords by default.
| I am not sure why Samba 'needs' to have an elaborate section for password
| changing. Correct me if I am wrong.

I think I confused you. I'm just saying that passwd in Gentoo doesn't have the
ability to accept the new password from STDIN. You have to use chpasswd, instead.
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