man SystemInstaller::Passwd () - a library to modify passwd files from Perl

NAME

SystemInstaller::Passwd - a library to modify passwd files from Perl

SYNOPSIS

  use SystemInstaller::Passwd qw(update_user);
  update_user(
              imagepath => '/var/lib/systemimager/image/image1',
              user => 'root',
              password => 'yourmoma'
             );

DESCRIPTION

This library uses the usermod command to set the password for a user within an image. They password given is encrypted using crypt and then passed to usermod.

METHODS

update_user(%variables)

AUTHORS

  Sean Dague <japh@us.ibm.com>, Michael Chase-Salerno <mchasal@users.sf.net>

SEE ALSO

crypt(3), usermod(8), perl(1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2001 International Business Machines

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

CHANGELOG

$Log: Passwd.pm,v $ Revision 1.8 2002/06/12 15:34:35 mchasal Use usermod for password setting.

Revision 1.7 2001/10/09 15:36:57 sdague added better error messages if password files can't be opened

Revision 1.6 2001/09/04 17:04:22 sdague updated shadow passwd fields

Revision 1.5 2001/08/31 17:51:08 sdague added some more stub documentation

Revision 1.4 2001/08/31 17:46:43 sdague added version and changelog to SystemInstaller::Passwd