change password in one go

Hi all,

I need to change the password of any user in one go.

For example in Linux we have two options :-

(echo "username:password") | chpasswd
or
echo $PASS | passwd $USER --stdin

This changes the password without prompting. Actually, I need to make a script which adds a user and then sets a password to it.

I have made it for Linux but now I require it to run on other Unix boxes also. I dont have option to install any other utility like expect.

Pls can someone give Solaris + HPUX + AIX equivalent of the command.

Thanks in adv.

VIKAS

Why do you have to create +2 duplicate posts ?

http://www.unix.com/hp-ux/68428-change-password-one-go.html\#post302203343

hey,

Sorry about it. But I had posted it in different forums as these are OS specific forums.

Will take care in future.

Please do NOT crosspost your questions! I've moved the tread to shell scripting.

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