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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting change password for multiple host Post 302369029 by chang-lee on Friday 6th of November 2009 09:27:58 AM
Old 11-06-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by scottn
Maybe this can help:

Code:
man chpasswd

i.e.

Code:
for SERVER in server1 server2 etc; do
  ssh $SERVER 'echo "root:123456" | chpasswd'
done

chpasswd is available on RHEL and CentOS, so I imagine on Fedora too.
is there any other way that server1 will copy /etc/password and shadow file to other server via scp , without to apply the password on every machine ?
 

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asadmin-list-authdbs(1AS)					   User Commands					 asadmin-list-authdbs(1AS)

NAME
list-authdbs - gets the authorized database SYNOPSIS
list-authdbs --user admin_user[--password admin_password][--host localhost] [--port 4848][--passwordfile filename][--secure|-s][--instance instance_name] --virtualserver virtualserver_ID authdb_ID Gets the access control lists associated with the named server instance. OPTIONS
--user administrative user associated for the instance. --password administrative password corresponding to the administrative user. --host host name of the machine hosting the administrative instance. --port administrative port number associated with the administrative host. --passwordfile file containing passwords appropriate for the command (e.g., administrative instance). --secure if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the administrative instance. --virtualserver virtual server ID. It can also be referred to as the variable $id in an obj.conf file. A virtual server ID cannot begin with a number. OPERANDS
instance_name name of the instance. Example 1: Using list-authdbs asadmin> lsit-authdbs --user admin --password adminadmin --host fuyako --port 7070 --virtualserver server1 server1 default sampleAuth Where: default and sampleAuth are the authdb IDs in virtual server server1 and instance server1 listed. asadmin% list-authdbs --instance server1 EXIT STATUS
0 command executed successfully 1 error in executing the command asadmin-create-authdb(1AS), asadmin-delete-authdb(1AS) J2EE 1.4 SDK March 2004 asadmin-list-authdbs(1AS)
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