Change password for other users

[sjaiswal]

Hi

i want to write a perl script say chpasswd.pl that takes 1 agument e.g

chpasswd.pl <username>

Function of this script should be to canged the password of the username passed.

Also i should be able to run chpasswd.pl as non root user.

eb user abc is running "chpasswd.pl pqr" to cahnge the password of pqr.

I want that when this script is run then it should ask for root password and then the password for pqr to be set.

Thanks for your help

[devils casper]

Use sudo to gain root privileges in script and it will work fine.