You create the golden image presumably via some NIM-procedure. My suggestion is to have a post-install customization script which sets the root password to blank and raises the ADMCHG flag so that the next root logging on is required to set the PW.
It being weekend I have no AIX system at hand to test it, but that should work:
See the man page for the chpasswd command for details.
On another thought you may want to include such a post-install step into the regular NIM-setup of new systems so that - regardless of what golden image was delivered - the root password is always set to a constant value which you can tell the administrators. In regular intervals (like once a year, ...) you just change this post-install-script so that ALL newly iinstalled systems are set to this new password initially.
Hello,
I just finished adding a bunch of new users to the linux servers I administer. I add users either via command line or via linuxconf, but I can't seem to find out how to force users to change their passwords on their first login to the system.
Anyone know how to do that? My HP-UX... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I notice in my Sun Solaris 8 sparc worstation, I am able to change my password to same existing password.
That is, right now my password is abc, and I change it with "passwd" command and change it abc again. It will accept.
How can I make it such that it will not accept same password?... (3 Replies)
We have quite a few threads about this subject. I have collected some of them and arranged them by the OS which is primarily discussed in the thread. That is because the exact procedure depends on the OS involved. What's more, since you often need to interact with the boot process, the... (0 Replies)
Hi, yesterday, I changed root's shell in /etc/passwd, cause a mistake then I can not log in root account (can't find correct shell). I attempted to log in single-mode, however, it prompted for single-mode's password then I type root's password but still can not log in.
I'm using AIX 5L version 5.2... (2 Replies)
hi
How can I force user to change of password by modifying the password expiry and the grace period so that the
user has at least 1 week to login and change the password...... (3 Replies)
hi
by modifying /etc/shadow
how can I Force a change of password so that user has at least 1 week to login?
I did it by using:
echo "enter username to force password change"
read user;
chage -M 7 $user;
How can I do it by modifying /etc/shadow?? (6 Replies)
Hello All,
How to force user to change his login passwd on his first login in solaris 10 ?
while adding user do we need to set the password in theis case?? (7 Replies)
Hi all,
Im having trouble setting up an FTP server and forcing SSL. At the moment i can connect to the server externally using normal FTP but when i try FTP with SSL i get
STATUS:> Connected. Exchanging encryption keys...
ERROR:> SSL: Error in negotiating... (5 Replies)
i do not have root on a solairs 10 server , however i do have the root role, i was wondering if I can change the root password as a a role with the passwd command? I have not tried yet.
and do i have to use the # chgkey -p afterwards?
i need to patch is why i am asking.
thanks (1 Reply)
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grub-install - install GRUB on your drive
SYNOPSIS
grub-install [OPTION] install_device
DESCRIPTION
Install GRUB on your drive.
-h, --help
print this message and exit
-v, --version
print the version information and exit
--root-directory=DIR
install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory
--grub-shell=FILE
use FILE as the grub shell
--no-floppy
do not probe any floppy drive
--force-lba
force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS
--recheck
probe a device map even if it already exists
INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.
grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the
boot sector.
The grub source distribution carries this script to ease the installation of grub as a boot loader. In Suse Linux however, grub installa-
tion is much better handled by Yast; use of this script is generally discouraged and therefore unsupported. Consequently, the script has
been renamed to grub-install.unsupported.
In order to (re-)install grub for the currently running system, simply use Yast. For an installation aiming at a differing system, the
crafting of an appropriate device.map and grub shell script is strongly advised, e.g. "grub --batch --device-map=target-device.map < tar-
get-grub.conf"
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub-install programs are properly installed at
your site, the command
info grub-install
should give you access to the complete manual.
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