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in reply to Net::SSH::Perl and Passwd

A couple of things... First, I think that the passwd command opens /dev/tty to make sure that no one has hijacked stdin/stdout/stderr. Second, the SSH protocol supports changing a password without using an external command. If you look at RFC 4252, the SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST packet has an optional field to hold a new password. I found this node while looking to see if anyone's done this before; I'll be implementing it myself if I can't find anything.

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Re^2: Net::SSH::Perl and Passwd
by salva (Canon) on Aug 19, 2009 at 18:21 UTC
    Quoting OpenSSH SSH server source code... 
    if (change)
    logit("password change not supported");

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    So even if it is in the RFC, the reality is that most server implementations are probably not supporting that feature :-(
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