chpasswd works fine noninteractively as root. It just reads the user:pass pairs from stdin. For example, to change xyzzy's password:
Anyone but root needs to authorize themselves with PAM somehow, usually by password. This is as it should be I think. Obviously a powerful bulk password changing tool shouldn't be available to just anyone...
This may vary on your system if your PAM settings are different.
Hi,
I need to know if this command
echo NEWPASSWORD | passwd --stdin USERNAME
that works fine on Red Hat Linux, is also available on other Unix/Linux machines (AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, Lindows, Slackware, Xandros, HP-UX, IRIX, SCO, MacOS, BSDi ...).
... (2 Replies)
If we have it so users accounts need a new password after 90 days is there a way to also say that after 90 days they need to use a new password and not let them use the same one twice? (2 Replies)
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Are single quotes allowed in a UNIX password? With my understanding that UNIX interprets single quotes in pairs and has a distinct meaning to the shell that it removes special meaning of all enclosed characters. I wanted to confirm that a single quote within a password would fail for this reason. (4 Replies)
Hi,
How to check whether the single user mode is password protected or not?By default, while entering in to single user mode, Os is not asking for login credentails. How can i enable it. Kindly help
Rgds,
kmvinay (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I'm new to unix and i need the below favour from you.
I have list of 50 unix server. I need to login to all the server one by one and with the same user and password. I will declare the user name and password globally in the script.
for example :
servername- hyperV
user name... (4 Replies)
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Hi,
I am unable to set the password remotely. I am using the script as below:
ep=`echo "$p" | /usr/lbin/makekey`
ssh -t $i "/usr/local/bin/sudo useradd -c "$user_c" -m -d /home/$user_id -s /bin/ksh $user_id; /usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -F -p $ep $user_id"
The... (0 Replies)
I have a Solaris-10 non global zone, on which I am not able to reset password, while counts are matching in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. I tried searching its solution in various forums, but nothing is working
# id -a oemagent
uid=56605(oemagent) gid=56595(tess) groups=56595(tess)
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NWAUTH(1) nwauth NWAUTH(1)NAME
nwauth - Verify username/password
SYNOPSIS
nwauth [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -D ]
DESCRIPTION
nwauth does nothing but logging into a NetWare server. If the login was successful, an error code of 0 is returned. If the login was not
successful, an error code of 1 is returned. It was designed for use by other programs who want authenticate users via a NetWare server.
If there is no -P or -n option specified on command line, nwauth always expects a password on stdin. If the stdin is a tty, then the user
is prompted for a password. Otherwise nwauth simply reads stdin for a password.
nwauth looks up the file $HOME/.nwclient to find a file server and a user name if they are not specified on command line. See nwclient(5)
for more information. Please note that the access permissions of .nwclient MUST be 600, for security reasons.
OPTIONS -h
-h is used to print a short help text.
-S server
server is the name of the server you want to use.
-U user name
If the user name your NetWare administrator gave to you differs from your unix user-id, you should use -U to tell the server about your
NetWare user name.
-D
nwauth says that your password is correct if you have existing connection to server with name user name. This is handy for some shell
scripts, but it is unacceptable for authorization modules, such as PAM, PHP or Apache. It was pointed to me that this behavior was not
well known, and there exist at least one PAM module which does not know that (this module is not part of ncpfs; you should use PAM mod-
ule which comes with ncpfs instead anyway).
SEE ALSO nwclient(5)CREDITS
nwauth was written by Volker Lendecke (lendecke@math.uni-goettingen.de)
nwauth 10/27/1996 NWAUTH(1)