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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Assign default password to new users in Solaris Post 302587206 by jaiseaugustine on Wednesday 4th of January 2012 08:44:50 AM
Old 01-04-2012
Assign default password to new users in Solaris
Hi All,

I am working on a Solaris 10 machine and now working with a user creation script. I want to create users using the script and assign a default password.

I found the use of 'expect' in one post, but 'expect' is not available in our server.

Also, the below code is not working for me.
Code:
# useradd -m -d /home/foo foo
# echo "foo" | passwd --stdin foo
Changing password for user foo.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

Now I am thinking of editing the /etc/shadow file with the password string of other user. But I am really afraid to try this way as our servers are live having 100+ users. can anyone suggest if editing the /etc/shadow file using the below 'sed' command will work?
Code:
passwd=crypted_passwd 
sed "s/${name}/${name}:${passwd}/" /etc/shadow > /tmp/shadow.tmp 
cp /tmp/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow 
rm /tmp/shadow.tmp


Or Can you help me with a new way of doing it?

Thanks in advance.
Jaise
 

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lgroupmod

lgroupmod(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      lgroupmod(8)

NAME

       lgroupmod - Modify an user group

SYNOPSIS

       lgroupmod [OPTION]... group

DESCRIPTION

       Modifies the user group with name group.

OPTIONS

       -A, --admin-add=list
	      Add users in comma-separated list among group's administrators.

       -a, --admin-remove=list
	      Remove  users  in comma-separated list from group's administrators.  Removing users that are not currently among group's administra-
	      tors silently succeeds.

       -g, --gid=gid
	      Change group's group ID to gid.

       -i, --interactive
	      Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.

       -L, --lock
	      Lock group.  This prevents users from using the group password with newgrp(1) to become a member of group.

       -M, --member-add=list
	      Add users in comma-separated list among group's members.

       -m, --member-remove=list
	      Remove users in comma-separated list from group's members.  Removing users that are not currently  among	group's  members  silently
	      succeeds.

       -n, --name=name
	      Rename group to name.

       -P, --plainpassword=password
	      Set group's password to password.  Note that the password can be viewed while running lgroupmod using tools such as ps(1).

       -p, --password=encrypted
	      Set  group's  password  to the password represented by the hash encrypted.  Note that the hash can be viewed while running lgroupmod
	      using tools such as ps(1).

       -U, --unlock
	      Unlock group.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.

libuser 							    Jan 11 2005 						      lgroupmod(8)
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