[Bug-sysutils] Non-interactive password entry

[Barry deFreese]

Hi folks,

I was (am) looking at both mkuser taking a file as input and/or adding 
chuser (with limitations).  However, as far as I can tell, all of our 
other programs that manipulate passwords do so interactively.  Obviously 
I can fake this but with Ben's new libpasswd does it make sense to 
extend setpasswd to take password as a param or maybe create a mirror 
function that works non-interactively and accepts password as a parm?  
The other question there that I don't know the answer to is: Is there a 
security risk in doing so?  (Of course I'm not sure it could be any more 
of a risk that the passwords sitting in the input file?)

Thanks!

Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)