[Pkg-shadow-devel] change group password in batch mode

[Jonas Meurer]

On 02/03/2006 Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> Dnia 02-03-2006, czw o godzinie 17:34 +0100, Jonas Meurer napisał(a):
> > hello,
> > 
> > for lurker i need to set the lurker system group password in postinst.
> > unfortunately there seems to be no way for changing group passwords in
> > batch mode.
> > 
> > for system user passwords 'chpasswd' exists, but i cannot find an
> > equivalent for system group passwords.
> > 
> > would it be generally useful? if yes, i could try to create a patch for
> > the shadow package to ship a 'chgpasswd' binary.
> 
> Feel free to do this :)

i just reported a wishlist bug with the source attached.

...
 jonas