From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: passwd(1), newuser(1) fixed 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2858
Posted: Tue Mar  8 21:47:52 1983
Received: Tue Mar  8 21:47:52 1983

Passwd(1) has been given a major overhaul.  The only user-visible change
is a -g option for generating a new password (for use by newuser(1)).
The locking system has been changed to *work*, the error messages have
been much improved, some efficiency improvements have been made, and
a major internal cleanup has been done.

Newuser(1) has been updated to match the new passwd locking system and
has been changed to use passwd's -g option to supply an initial password.
(This eliminates interaction, making it possible to run newuser in the
background.)