I'm trying to set my password with echo "user:SOME_PASSWORD_STRING" | sudo chpasswd -e but when I do this, my password is not set to the correct password. The passwords I'm using are one's I've copied from /etc/shadow.
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The problem is the use of double quotes in the echo statement. The password had several $ characters in it, which was translated as bash variables.
The correct command uses single quotes:
echo 'user:SOME_PASSWORD_STRING' | sudo chpasswd -e
See here for more on quotes: Differences between doublequotes " ", singlequotes ' ' and backticks ´ ´ on commandline?
/etc/passwd? Aren't we supposed to store those in/etc/shadowwhich is inaccessible to regular users for security reasons? I really hope you're not operating any publicly accessible servers./etc/shadow. Fixed