Assign default password to new users in Solaris Post: 302587334

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

How best to extract the users home from /etc/password

What would be the best way to extract a users home from /etc/passwd. I intended to use cut but have been semi advised that a can do it using and eval statement and the ~ operator. Unfortunately this was just a casual conversation so made little sense at the time. Any help much appreciated. cheers

2. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

list the password settings for all the users

Hi!! How can I list the password settings for all the users?? Best regards

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Have users changed their password

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.

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

can I assign permissions only for some users ?

I know how to change permissions for the owner, group or others. if I want a file readable for a group A of users and writable for a group B how can I do it ? thanks

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help- Change the password of users to common one

Hi all I have some 106 users of which i need to change the password of them to a common one. I dont know their paswword. But i need to reset them to a common one. How can i do this with a shell script? It would be a great help if some one can help to sort out this.:b::b: I know it can be...

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

script to change password for all users

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. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Too many users with root password

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

8. Solaris

Change password for users

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...

9. Solaris

Sol 10 PAM config - how to assign modules to specific users

Hi, was after some help for the following. I want to enforce local passwd authentication for service accounts and kerberos authentication for users. Solaris 11 lets me assign different PAM modules to specific users via usermod and linux lets me define via UID, but I can't find a way to do this...

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Script to read through a file and create new users/assign them to groups in Ubuntu

Hi all. I need a shell script that can, in short, read through a text file line by line and create a new user in Ubuntu, as well as assign that user to a group. The format of the text file is not important but preferably: 'username:group'. I don't have much programming knowledge no matter shell...

LEARN ABOUT MINIX

gshadow

GSHADOW(5)                                                 File Formats and Conversions                                                 GSHADOW(5)

NAME

       gshadow - shadowed group file

DESCRIPTION

       /etc/gshadow contains the shadowed information for group accounts.

       This file must not be readable by regular users if password security is to be maintained.

       Each line of this file contains the following colon-separated fields:

       group name
           It must be a valid group name, which exist on the system.

       encrypted password
           Refer to crypt(3) for details on how this string is interpreted.

           If the password field contains some string that is not a valid result of crypt(3), for instance ! or *, users will not be able to use a
           unix password to access the group (but group members do not need the password).

           The password is used when a user who is not a member of the group wants to gain the permissions of this group (see newgrp(1)).

           This field may be empty, in which case only the group members can gain the group permissions.

           A password field which starts with an exclamation mark means that the password is locked. The remaining characters on the line
           represent the password field before the password was locked.

           This password supersedes any password specified in /etc/group.

       administrators
           It must be a comma-separated list of user names.

           Administrators can change the password or the members of the group.

           Administrators also have the same permissions as the members (see below).

       members
           It must be a comma-separated list of user names.

           Members can access the group without being prompted for a password.

           You should use the same list of users as in /etc/group.

FILES

       /etc/group
           Group account information.

       /etc/gshadow
           Secure group account information.

SEE ALSO

       gpasswd(5), group(5), grpck(8), grpconv(8), newgrp(1).

shadow-utils 4.5                                                    01/25/2018                                                          GSHADOW(5)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

How best to extract the users home from /etc/password

Discussion started by: spaceship

2. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

list the password settings for all the users

Discussion started by: irasela

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Have users changed their password

Discussion started by: annemar

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

can I assign permissions only for some users ?

Discussion started by: aneuryzma