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# 1  
Old 12-18-2008
AIX mkuser with password
Hi

I want to create a user on AIX box. The only problem I have is I want to set it a password and the user doesn't have to change the password at his initial login. Is there any flag to do that. Any help would be appreciated.
# 2  
Old 12-18-2008
Check out pwdadm . I believe this will work "pwdadm -c user_id". You will of course have to use this after you issue mkuser to create the user and passwd to set the password.
# 3  
Old 12-18-2008
Thank you
That worked

How can I set the password using a script.
I tried
cat test11.txt | passwd test1
The file test11.txt contains the following two lines
test22pw
test22pw

But it is waiting on me for the input
If I just hit enter, it's reading the values from the file but I want to avoid hitting carriage returns.
# 4  
Old 12-18-2008
They are commands that require manual input. I have heard of people using the scripting language expect for such things. I have used it to script an ftp script. Do a search in these forums on expect and see what you find. Good Luck.
# 5  
Old 12-18-2008
check out the chpasswd command
# 6  
Old 12-19-2008
Hi Frank,
What version of AIX is that used in? I have 5.2 and do not find it. Thank you.
# 7  
Old 12-19-2008
I have 5.3 AIX and chpasswd is working
Thank you very much
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