<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:16 PM, shali Kallumpuram <<a href="mailto:vidyaserveradmin@gmail.com">vidyaserveradmin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dear all, i have script called createstaff.sh ,in that script chpasswd not working if i run echo "usename:passwd" | chpasswd its working, what is the problem?? </blockquote><div> have you tried changing this line to either chpasswd < /root/Desktop/programming_lab/tp or cat /root/Desktop/programming_lab/tp | chpasswd and see if that solves your problem Regards Ian </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>