FreedomBox/actions/change-user-password
Sunil Mohan Adapa a3de3ae277 users: Handle errors better during POSIX user operations
- If during an action, user does not exist ignore.

- If during an action, return a non-zero exist status.

- Catch an errors during actions as exceptions.

- Display a message that corresponding POSIX operation failed.
2015-01-25 01:45:51 +05:30

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#!/bin/bash
#
# This file is part of Plinth.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
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#
# Must be run as root.
username="$1"
password="$2"
getent passwd "$username"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed: user not found"
exit
fi
echo "$username:$password" | chpasswd
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed: could not set user password"
exit 2
fi