The command to force a new password for a user is:
[QUIET] PWC ADD [log in to unmask] password

if they already have one set, you need to do a
[QUIET] PWC DEL [log in to unmask]
first


Stan Horwitz wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2006, at 9:59 AM — 12/14/06, Ray Champagne wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm currently transferring an old Lyris list over to ListServ.  I have a
>> list of all the users and passwords, but I am only seeing ways to bulk
>> import users.  There are options to just take their email, or their & 
>> their
>> FName & Lname, but I don't see any place where I can import their 
>> passwords.
>> There has to be a way to do this!
>
> Are the Lyris passwords encrypted? If not, you could probably achieve 
> the result you want by scripting it. What you need is a script that 
> would email the appropriate password set command to listserv for each 
> subscription. There might also be a better way, but that's just what 
> occurs to me off the top of my head. If you know any scripting 
> language at all on a machine that can send email from an address that 
> owns the lists in question, this should be easy to set up.

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