How to Change the Root Password Using Perl
- 1). Log in as root or a user with root privileges.
- 2). Call the system command from within your Perl script. The syntax is:
system("command");
Note the quotation marks; they are necessary. - 3). Use the "passwd" command to change the password of a specific user; in this case root. Your command should look something like this:
system("echo "your-new-password" | passwd --stdin root");
where your-new-password is the password you'd like to use for root. Retain all the quotation marks. - 4). Run your Perl script; root's password should now be changed.
