Single line password reset.

Hi,

I need to know if this command

echo NEWPASSWORD | passwd --stdin USERNAME

that works fine on Red Hat Linux, is also available on other Unix/Linux machines (AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, Lindows, Slackware, Xandros, HP-UX, IRIX, SCO, MacOS, BSDi ...).


Thanks in advance,
Margi.

The answer is no for a number of reasons. For example
"--stdin" is not POSIX-compliant command lien argument
syntax.

As an aside, using standard utilities such as usermod
is a better way to handle this sort of thing.

- Finnbarr