How to change a user's password in AIX with the output from ECHO command

# echo "user:n3w_p466w0rd" | /bin/chpasswd -c

Where user is the user to which you wish the password changed and after ":" is the new password.

 Output from chpasswd command:

Examples        1    To set passwords for users from the command line, type:             chpasswd             Followed by entering username:password pairs, one pair per line. Enter CTRL+D when finished.             user1:passwd1             user2:passwd2             CTRL+D        2    To set passwords for users contained in a file named mypwdfile, type the following:             cat mypwdfile | chpasswd             Note that mypwdfile must contain username:password pairs; one pair per line. For example:             user1:passwd1             user2:passwd2

This works for Aix 5.2 or later.

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