script question

for common purpose you simply can use a file to read the answers from, like:
  your-script < file-containing-answers
or:
  echo answer | your-script

If it is for programs requesting paswords (like telnet), you need a special script language like expect to do it.

echo "Enter the password"
stty -echo
read password
stty sane
echo "The Password is : $password"

I want to auto input the password by script , I means to write a script to make a user password , the password is written in the script , not input at runtime, it seems not run:
 
echo "password" |echo "password"|passwd username

listening...

ahoffman is right, most programs requesting passwords will go direct to current tty device, not use stdin for password entry, you need something to emulate keyboard entry of password, ie put password directly into keyboard buffer. Even this will not work with all of them, I have known programs deliberately flush keyboard buffer between requesting "username", and "password", to ensure password is manually entered.

Not sure what version of Unix you are running.  In Red Hat Linux, the following passwd command works:

echo "password"|passwd root --stdin

which passwd will do that, /usr/bin/passwd?

Yes.  RH Linux 7.1.

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