Password change ksh script not working...

OK, I am new to FreeBSD and I am trying to use the chpass command in a scipt to change my passwords. I can use the "chpass -p 'encrypted password' userid" command to change the password, but it does not work within my script. The bigger problem is it DOES change the password, just not to what it should be... Any ideas???

Thanks in advance!

Where are you calling this script from? Is it possible that PATH is not set in that environment and hence it is not finding chpass?

Also, you're passing the encrypted password to the script, not the password to encrypt, correct?

Thanks for the reply. Here are the answers:
1.) Currently, I am just running it through a telnet session. I am using the same telnet session to issue the command successfully. Also, it is changing the password, just to something I do not know...

2.) Yes, I am feeding the command the encrypted password. It is the same encrypted password I am feeding the command when successful on the telnet prompt.

Also, I actually narrowed down the problem. I am getting the encrypted password from a file (which contains a list of passwords). This is what is causing the problem. If I do not use a variable for the encrypted password, it works properly. Anyone know how I can fix this? I really need to grab this information from another file.

Thanks in advance!!!

OK, I figured this out, so I thought I would post my solution for anyone else who is having this issue. I was using single quotes around the encrypted password since the password contained special characters ($,/, etc). Once I removed these single quotes the script is working fine. Thank you all for your help with this issue, and hopefully this post will help someone else.