#!/usr/bin/env python import sys import pexpect # Read variables of first and second given argument user = str(sys.argv[1]) passwordfile = str(sys.argv[2]) # Read content of passwordfile and put as variable "password" with open (passwordfile, "r") as myfile: password=myfile.read().replace('\n', '') # Define function def _vchangepw(user, password): changepw = pexpect.spawn( command='vpasswd', # actual shell command which should be started args=[user] # necessary argument ) changepw.expect('password:') changepw.sendline(password) changepw.expect('verification:') changepw.sendline(password) changepw.expect(pexpect.EOF) changepw.close() # Error handling if changepw.exitstatus != 0: last_line = filter(None, changepw.before.split('\r\n'))[-1] problem = last_line.split(':')[-1] print "ERROR! Code: " + str(changepw.exitstatus) print "Last error: " + str(problem) else: print "SUCCESS!" print "The password of user " + str(user) + " has been changed to: " + str(password) # Start function _vchangepw(user, password)