Can I change a user password in Linux from the command line with no interactivity?
- by Paul Hoffman
I have a specific use case where I would really like to be able to change a user's password with a single command with no interactivity. This is being done in a safe fashion (over SSH, and on a system with only one user able to be logged in), so it's fine to expose the new password (and even the old one, if necessary) on the command line. FWIW, it's a Ubuntu system.
I just want to avoid having to add something Expect-like to this system for just this one task.