whither 1.00's "passwd -p ..." ?

[Jim Freeman]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:17:10PM +0200, Tito wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 July 2007 15:23:06 Jim Freeman MISTAKENLY wrote:
> > busybox 1.00 (and other versions?) had a "-p" option to allow setting
> > a user's password bypassing the interactive mode
...
> > 	# passwd -p **** blip
> > 	Setting password for blip
> > 	Password changed.
...
> Maybe it was ripped out as it is non standard?
>  
> OPTIONS
>        The options which apply to the passwd command are:
> 
>        -a, --all
>           This option can be used only with -S and causes show status for all
>           users.
...

You're no doubt correct - I think I'd seen mention of it in ancient
SunOS docs.

BTW - were you excerpting from SuS? or where?

Thanks,
...jfree