A simple
..... and you are not prompted for the old password. You will be prompted twice for the new password, so verification is taken care of too. Additionally, sudo will write to the syslog for your auditors to drool over.
I hope that this helps,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
Hi Moderators,
I forgot the login password and am accessing the forum page through save form password credentials.
Could you please reset my password ?
Thanks,
:) (5 Replies)
All,
I have a Solaris 9 system and I would like to create a script that would reset the password of a local user to something specific on a daily basis.
Someone suggested the following:
passwd --stdin username < passwd_file
However, this doesn't work on Solaris.
Does anyone know of... (3 Replies)
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Why would a password reset, a provided numerical value thru email, not be accepted when trying to log in with it? I have expired the 5 login attempts twice with still no acceptance. thanks for the help (3 Replies)
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to have cron change your password every month from an encrypted list of passwords?I have several servers I hardly ever go near but when I do the password has always expired and it takes a long time to get the administrators to reset it for me. I was thinking... (4 Replies)
Picked up a 3b2 running System V. Works fine, but it requires a username and password. Is the username "root" or "sysadm"? How do I find out and how to I reset it or bypass it?
Thanks. (2 Replies)
So my dad bought an iMac from my mom, but she does not know the admin password anymore. I read on the apple forums that I should look here for help on resetting the password. The iMac runs OSX 10.6.3. I would really appreciate any help. Thanks (3 Replies)
Hello -
I want to reset user password in multiple server via root ID. I have passwordless authentication for root between all the servers.
I an use loop to reset the password. I am using below command in loop
echo mypassword | passwd username --stdin
However, if anyone sees history - he... (5 Replies)
Installed Solaris 11.3 Gnome Desktop
It wouldn't let me log on at lock screen after first reboot.
It finally relented and let me in after about 20 logon failures.
How do I reset password now that I am in? (10 Replies)
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I was unable to login and so used the "Forgotten Password' process. I was sent a NEWLY-PROVIDED password and a link through which my password could be changed. The NEWLY-PROVIDED password allowed me to login.
Following the provided link I attempted to update my password to one of my own... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
mailauth
mailauth(8) System Manager's Manual mailauth(8)NAME
mailauth - manipulate alternate authorization database for Post Office Protocol (POP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), and APOP
users.
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/mailauth [-init] [-convert] [-list [-type POP | APOP | IMAP]] [-delete name] [-user name [-type POP | APOP | IMAP]]
OPTIONS
Initialize the database. You must be superuser to use this option. Convert an existing APOP only database to the new format. You must be
superuser to use this option. Used to list the entries in the mailauth database. If no type is specified, all entries in the database will
be displayed. The display will consist of one column corresponding to the username and another column for the type of user. If a type is
specified using the -type option, only entries for the corresponding type of user (POP, APOP, or IMAP) will be displayed. Used by the sys-
tem administrator to either add a user to the mailauth database, to change the password for the user, or to change the type of user. The
administrator will be prompted for a new password and then a verification of the password. If the type is not explicitly specified and a
previous entry does not exist, then it will default to APOP. Used to delete the entry corresponding to name from the mailauth database.
DESCRIPTION
The mailauth program allows a POP, IMAP, or APOP (an alternate authentication method for POP) user to change the secret value used to gen-
erate their authentication credentials. In addition, both the superuser and the user pop may use this program to either add or remove a
user, or to print public information from it. Only the superuser may initialize or convert the database.
A user can change their own passwords or add themselves to the mailauth database by entering the mailauth command. If an entry already
exists, the user is first prompted to enter the old password. If the password does not correspond with the one in the database, the trans-
action will be ended. Otherwise, the user will be prompted for a new password and a verification of the password. The user is not allowed
to change the type of user they are. For example, they cannot change themselves from a user using the APOP command during the POP Autho-
rization State to a user using the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). If an entry does not already exist in the database, the user
will be added as an APOP user.
Under normal usage, mailauth prompts for a new secret, just like the passwd program. It then updates the POP authorization database
accordingly.
FILES
POP authorization database
SEE ALSO
Command: imapd(8), mailusradm(8), pop3d(8)mailauth(8)