I'm tasked to change a user's password on multiple Linux systems (RH v3). I though copying the encrypted password from one Linux /etc/shadow file to another would work but I was wrong.
The long term solution is to establish an openLDAP Directory service, but for now I'm stuck with a manual... (1 Reply)
Is it possible to change the password using a shell script, I want to remotely connect to a computer and then change password without manual intevention.
Thanks in Advance
Rishi (4 Replies)
Hi Friends.
I am new to scripting now i want to change the root password using the script with standard password.
which is the easy scripting to learn for the beginner, Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have several solaris boxes running Solaris 8. When changing root passwords on them, all will simply ask for the new root password to change and of course to re-type the new password. One of the systems however asks for the existing root password before it will display the new password... (8 Replies)
Hi Gurus
I have a few Sol 5.9 servers and i have enabled password less authentication between them for my user ID. Often i have found that when my password has expired,the login fails.
Resetting my password reenables the keys.
Do i need to do something to avoid this scenario or is this... (2 Replies)
HI I 'm new shall script and unix. I want to create script for change password root by ssh-keygen command . I have 50 servers and I want ot login ot the servers via ssh by type ones password and can login every machines.The script ssh-keygen must ot generate key every weekly than it send new... (2 Replies)
I have write a script which contains
ssh -p 12345 dcplatform@10.125.42.50
ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5555 "$CMD"
ssh root@$GUEST_IP "$CMD"
before I use public key, it works well, now I want to change to "expect", BUT I don't want to change above code and "parameter position"
I can post a... (1 Reply)
AIX 6.1
User has a password set.
It needs to be a blank password (no password).
smit passwd
enter user name
at change password and confirm password, just press ENTER
Afterwards, I could not log on with blank password or with original password.
How can I change the password to a... (2 Replies)
Hello Experts,
when I am trying to connect my target server through sftp after creating ssh password less setup, it is asking for passowrd to connect.
to setup this I followed below process:
-->generated keys by executing the command "ssh-keygen -t rsa"
-->this created my .ssh directory... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Devipriya Ch
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10. Forum Support Area for Unregistered Users & Account Problems
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)
Discussion started by: Rich Marton
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
logins
LOGINS(1) BSD General Commands Manual LOGINS(1)NAME
logins -- display account information
SYNOPSIS
logins [-admopstux] [-g groups] [-l logins]
DESCRIPTION
The logins utility displays information about user and system accounts.
The following options are available:
-a Display information about the password change and account expiration times for each account.
-d Select accounts with duplicate UIDs.
-g groups Select accounts that are members of the specified groups. If multiple group names are specified, they must be separated with com-
mas.
-l logins Select accounts matching the specified login names. If multiple names are specified, they must be separated with commas.
-m Show information about secondary groups.
-o Display the information for each account on a single line of colon-separated fields.
-p Select accounts with no password.
-s Select system accounts. These are currently defined as accounts with UIDs below 1000, plus the ``nobody'' account (UID 65534).
-t Sort selected accounts by name rather than by UID.
-u Select user accounts. These are currently defined as accounts with UIDs above 1000, except the ``nobody'' account (UID 65534).
-x Display information about each account's home directory and shell.
If multiple selection options are specified, all accounts matching any of the selection criteria will be displayed.
If no selection options are specified, all accounts will be displayed.
SEE ALSO getgrent(3), getpwent(3), group(5), passwd(5), pw(8)HISTORY
The logins utility appeared in FreeBSD 4.10.
AUTHORS
The logins utility was written by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> based on similar utilities in other operating systems.
BSD March 6, 2004 BSD