Chpasswd with yescrypt

[I0F]

Hey,

so with the recent change to yescrypt the following command doesn’t seem to work anymore, because it doesn’t support the encryption method:

printf ‘$USER:$PASSWORD’ | chpasswd

I use this command in a script for changing user passwords. So my questions is, is there another way of doing the same thing?

[dalto]

Is it running as root? If so you could try something like:

printf "${PASSWORD}\n${PASSWORD}" | passwd $USER

[I0F]

Yeah, that works. Thanks!

edit:

I changed it to echo, because it sometimes didn’t work:

echo -e “${PASSWORD}\n${PASSWORD}” | passwd $USER