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How to programmatically reset a users password.?
Post 302879129 by blackrageous on Tuesday 10th of December 2013 04:05:32 PM
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
gpasswd
gpasswd(1) General Commands Manual gpasswd(1) NAME
gpasswd - change group password SYNOPSIS
gpasswd [-r|-l|-u] [group] DESCRIPTION
gpasswd changes passwords for group accounts. Only an administrator may change the password for any group. The used hash algorithmus is defined by the value of GROUP_CRYPT or, if not specified, CRYPT from /etc/default/passwd. If not configured, the traditinal des algorith- mus is used. OPTIONS
-r Remove group password. -l A system administrator can lock the password of the specified group. -u A system administrator can unlock the password of the specified group, if the group is not passwordless afterwards (it will not unlock a group that has only "!" as a password). FILES
/etc/group - group account information /etc/default/passwd - default values for password hash SEE ALSO
group(5), groupadd(8), groupdel(8), groupmod(8) AUTHOR
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> pwdutils July 2006 gpasswd(1)