1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello chiefs :) I have a SUN Enterprise 250, running Solaris 8.5 - I have managed to be able to connect a dumb terminal to the box via a standard straight-through rj45 cable, to my ibm laptop. OK so Putty can connect to the box via ssh - nice! But I dont have the password for root - or any... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there a way to change user password using passwd command in shell script? I don't want to use expect. Please help (8 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am trying to eject the cdrom from a livecd after certain stage... Now assuming that it is possible to eject,please consider my issue!!! The OS boots into a regular user by default...so i am unable to use the eject command to push out the drive... However if i try pfexec eject it... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey all, i have to write a script in Unix that would help me in my department to search certain user ids valid in /etc/passwd file.. here goes the exact question & data to help analyze: Amend a script to tell the user to enter a user id to be searched for in the /etc/passwd file. If there are no... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All I have written one shell script for GPRS route add is given below named GPRSRouteSet.sh URL="www.google.com" VBURL="10.5.2.211" echo "Setting route for $URL for GPRS" URL_Address=`nslookup $URL|grep Address:|grep -v "#"|awk -F " " '{print $2}'|head -1` echo "Executing ... (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Besides doing some shell-script which loops through /etc/passwd, I was wondering if there was some command that would tell me, like an enhanced version of getent. The Operating system is Solaris 10 (recent-ish revision) using Sun DS for LDAP. (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I wanted to write a shell script which will change the expired passwd in oracle. Here is below what I am trying, #!/bin/sh set -x ORACLE_HOME="/optware/oracle/9.2.0.2_64" SQLPLUS="${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus" PASS="xyz" PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH... (0 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Wishes!! I need some help to prepare a script to copy the public key from admin host to multiple client hosts to make them login without password. Detailed : I have an admin host "admin1" and i generated sshkeygen, now i have id_rsa.pub and i have around 50 client hosts. i... (4 Replies)

9. Programming

hi all, i have made a shell script and it runs until it reaches the if statement, doesn't the ! mean only if the command fails it will echo me that message and then exit can anyone please help me what is wrong with my code? many thanks, rob #!/bin/bash echo "is this archive... (10 Replies)

10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

did a big mistake, changing root entry of /etc/passwd to root:x:0:0:root:/root:/usr/bin/tmux split-window -v \; attach as expected, now I can't login as root anymore. sudo ed /etc/passwd etc. doesn't work. Any idea? Use code tags to increase readability and follow the rules. (4 Replies)