[RFE] juju change-user-password non interactively

[Felipe Reyes]

juju change-user-password can't be used in script without falling back into something like 'expect'. It would be nice if juju could read the password from the stdin.

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#!/bin/bash
JUJU_USER=$1
JUJU_PASSWORD=$(pwgen 12 1)
echo $JUJU_PASSWORD | juju change-user-password $JUJU_USER
echo "This is your password: $JUJU_PASSWORD" | mutt -s "New password for user $JUJU_USER" ${JUJU_USER}@example.com -a /tmp/XDefd.png
----

[workaround]

Expect script:

```
#!/usr/bin/expect

set timeout 20
set juju_user [lindex $argv 0]
set juju_password [lindex $argv 1]

spawn juju change-user-password $juju_user

expect "new password:" { send "$juju_password\r" }
expect "type new password again:" { send "$juju_password\r" };

interact
```

[Pen Gale (pengale)]

Agreed that this would be nicer if more easily scriptable. Adding to the wishlist, as there is a documented workaround. (Thank you for documenting it!)

[Canonical Juju QA Bot (juju-qa-bot)]

This bug has not been updated in 2 years, so we're marking it Low importance. If you believe this is incorrect, please update the importance.