A simple
..... and you are not prompted for the old password. You will be prompted twice for the new password, so verification is taken care of too. Additionally, sudo will write to the syslog for your auditors to drool over.
I hope that this helps,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
Hi Moderators,
I forgot the login password and am accessing the forum page through save form password credentials.
Could you please reset my password ?
Thanks,
:) (5 Replies)
All,
I have a Solaris 9 system and I would like to create a script that would reset the password of a local user to something specific on a daily basis.
Someone suggested the following:
passwd --stdin username < passwd_file
However, this doesn't work on Solaris.
Does anyone know of... (3 Replies)
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Hello -
I want to reset user password in multiple server via root ID. I have passwordless authentication for root between all the servers.
I an use loop to reset the password. I am using below command in loop
echo mypassword | passwd username --stdin
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Installed Solaris 11.3 Gnome Desktop
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How do I reset password now that I am in? (10 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
vipw
VIPW(8) BSD System Manager's Manual VIPW(8)NAME
vipw -- edit the password file
SYNOPSIS
vipw [-d directory]
DESCRIPTION
vipw edits the password file after setting the appropriate locks, and does any necessary processing after the password file is unlocked. If
the password file is already locked for editing by another user, vipw will ask you to try again later. The default editor for vipw is vi(1).
vipw performs a number of consistency checks on the password entries, and will not allow a password file with a ``mangled'' entry to be
installed. If vipw rejects the new password file, the user is prompted to re-enter the edit session.
Once the information has been verified, vipw uses pwd_mkdb(8) to update the user database. This is run in the background, and, at very large
sites could take several minutes. Until this update is completed, the password file is unavailable for other updates and the new information
is not available to programs.
The options are as follows:
-d directory
Change the root directory of the password file from ``/'' to directory.
If a vipw session is killed it may leave ``/etc/ptmp'', which will cause future vipw executions to fail with ``vipw: the passwd file is
busy'', until it is removed.
ENVIRONMENT
If the following environment variable exists it will be used by vipw:
EDITOR The editor specified by the string EDITOR will be invoked instead of the default editor vi(1).
FILES
/etc/master.passwd The current password file.
/etc/ptmp Temporary copy of the password file used while editing.
SEE ALSO chpass(1), passwd(1), pwhash(1), passwd(5), passwd.conf(5), pwd_mkdb(8), user(8)HISTORY
The vipw command appeared in 4.0BSD.
BSD September 4, 2005 BSD