Name

chpasswd

Synopsis

chpasswd [option]

Description

System administration command. Change user passwords in a batch. chpasswd accepts input in the form of one username:password pair per line. If the -e option is not specified, password will be encrypted before being stored.

Option

-e

Passwords given are already encrypted.

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