This is on an ESX 3.x.x box, but you've got a few options.
The first is to use the --stdin option to passwd, e.g.
This would require you storing the plain text password in your script. A *much* safer option is to add a user and set the password as you normally would to a standard value, e.g.
Now, you can use the encrypted password for this user when creating other accounts, so that all newly created accounts have the same password as "tmpuser", e.g.
Cheers,
ZB
I would like to change the password requirements for all our AIX 5.2 logins but am having trouble finding a place where I can set the rules for everyone at the same time. I know I can go user by user in smit passwords but is there a way to create rules for everyone at the same time?
Thanks,... (2 Replies)
How can I know users have changed their passwords ? I don't need their password (!) I have to know if they have changed their pass word and when ?
Thank you in advance for any SIMPLE answer. (6 Replies)
As a system administrator. sometimes we see the users are trying some commands dangerous for the system health and remove them from their individual coomand history file.
How it is possible to enforce that the normal usres will will not be able to modify the history.
Thanks in advance.
Partha (4 Replies)
Ok, so here's my project I've been given and I know very little about this.
I have an AIX unix box that has over 2300 local users.
Any user with 4 or less characters in the username does not get changed.
Any user with 5 or more needs to have the attribute shell=/bin/ksh changed to... (1 Reply)
We have a server where we have a number of user ids and we also have the list of old passwords in a CSV file.
Now we want to change the password of all the users and assign them a default password.Can we write a shell script to do that.
I am planning to read the user name and corresponding... (7 Replies)
Hi there,
I'm working with a Linux server and now I can get a daily Logwatch mail ... my question is:since there are too many users with root password (...in my opinion... :mad:) how could I prevent to delete information about "su" log?
Thanks in advance,
GB (3 Replies)
I am on SunOS SolarisServer 5.11 11.1 i86pc i386 i86pc , I am trying to change password for a user,but I get the following message.I cannot find any google help on the matter.can anyone help?
root@SolarisServer:~# passwd
passwd: Changing password for stain
Please try again
Please try... (6 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a small C++ app for my solaris admins. I need to set it up so they can reset a users password. The admin does not have the old password. How can I reset a users password to a temp password either using passwd or PAM? I need to do this from within my C++ app. I have searched... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I want to exclude the users below 500 in the password file with the below script.
#!/bin/bash
# get date in dd-mm-yyyy format
NOW=$(date +"%d-%m-%Y")
exec > "/root/SYSINFO/User_details_`uname -n`_$NOW.txt"
cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd > /tmp/pass.txt && for i in `cat /tmp/pass.txt`;... (2 Replies)
for UserName in `cat users` ; do useradd -d /u02 -s /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server -G ftp-users $UserName ;
PassWord=$( echo $( tr '' '' <<< ${UserName:0:1} )${UserName:1} ) ;
echo "$PassWord@123" | passwd $UserName --stdin ; done
can some one explain what the bold text do
Please use... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: James0806
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
newuser
NEWUSER(8) System Manager's Manual NEWUSER(8)NAME
newuser - adding a new user
SYNOPSIS
rc /sys/lib/newuser
DESCRIPTION
To establish a new user on Plan 9, add the user's name to /adm/users by running the newuser command on the console of the file server (see
users(6) and fs(8)). Next, give the user a password using the changeuser command on the console of the authentication server (see
auth(8)). At this point, the user can bootstrap a terminal using the new name and password. The terminal will only get as far as running
rc, however, as no profile exists for the user.
The rc(1) script /sys/lib/newuser sets up a sensible environment for a new user of Plan 9. Once the terminal is running rc, type
rc /sys/lib/newuser
to build the necessary directories in /usr/$user and create a reasonable initial profile in /usr/$user/lib/profile. The script then runs
the profile which, as its last step, brings up 81/2(1). At this point the user's environment is established and running. (There is no
need to reboot.) It may be prudent at this point to run passwd(1) to change the password, depending on how the initial password was cho-
sen.
The profile built by /sys/lib/newuser looks like this:
bind -a $home/bin/rc /bin
bind -a $home/bin/$cputype /bin
font = /lib/font/bit/pelm/euro.9.font
switch($service){
case terminal
prompt=('term% ' ' ')
fn term%{ $* }
exec 81/2
case cpu
bind -b /mnt/term/mnt/81/2 /dev
prompt=('cpu% ' ' ')
echo -n $sysname > /dev/label
fn cpu%{ $* }
news
case con
prompt=('cpu% ' ' ')
news
}
Sites may make changes to /sys/lib/newuser that reflect the properties of the local environment.
Use the -c option of mail(1) to create a mailbox.
SEE ALSO passwd(1), 81/2(1), namespace(4), users(6), auth(8), fs(8)NEWUSER(8)