I am the administrator for a large network of HP/UX servers, about 100, this will be growing to over 200 in the next 18 months, part of my duties are to change the root passwords on these machines once month... which is a pain. I have written a script that will generate random passwords for me and print them out so that I do not have to think of and write down the passwords for safe keeping.

Yep, you guessed the next question... how can I pass the passwords to a script which will change them automatically on each machine?

I have done quite a bit of looking into this and found one answer is to use the GNU expect binary, but I am having difficulties getting the binary working on our servers, should I not get it working does any one have any ideas?

Please note that company policy does not allow me to use remote shells, psuedo root users and none expiring accounts.

Thanks in advance

- Paul