@Rudic, as previously stated, there is nothing wrong with the way it changes the password. There is something wrong with the loop. Everything the way it is, correctly changes one password for one server, but it doesn't catch the rest of the servers.
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Originally Posted by drysdalk
Hi,
OK, thanks. And it works on all four servers if done manually, and not just munsbxlinux3 ?
Well, good thinking, NO, when I ran the command by itself on the command line, giving it the server name manually, it hung for Solaris 10 box (prdcatap1).
root@tstnglbz1 # ssh -n munsbxlinux1 'echo -e "TestPW12345!\nTestPW12345!" | passwd mcha>
New password: BAD PASSWORD: it is too simplistic/systematic
Retype new password: Changing password for mchavoshi.
Password has been already used.
Password changed.
Code:
root@tstnglbz1 # ssh -n munsbxlinux2 'echo -e "TestPW12345!\nTestPW12345!" | passwd mcha>
New password: BAD PASSWORD: it is too simplistic/systematic
Retype new password: Changing password for user mchavoshi.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
Code:
root@tstnglbz1 # ssh -n munsbxlinux3 'echo -e "TestPW12345!\nTestPW12345!" | passwd mcha>
New password: Retype new password: Changing password for user mchavoshi.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
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Good to know that the problem is now identified and that you have a working solution for the Linux systems, at least. As for the Solaris one, you'll most likely have to find an alternative way of re-setting the password for that one host, or find one other common method that works across all platforms. The 'chpasswd' and 'usermod' ideas mentioned by RudiC and Chubler_XL would certainly be the best place to start.
I don't readily have access to a Solaris system to test things on myself just now, but will have a play about this evening if I can if you're still in need of an answer then.
OK guys, thanks so much @drysdalk for your excellent trouble shooting idea (running every command individually on the command line). The script works perfect, the way it is, it only hangs on stupid Solaris and since the Solaris box was on the top of the data file, it would hang on it and not go further. I removed the Solaris box from my data file and everything ran just fine. Please see below. I guess the problem now gets reduced to how to do this **** on Solaris?
Thanks, everyone, you guys are great.
Code:
root@tstnglbz1 # ./pwchange.sh pwchange.dat
New password: BAD PASSWORD: it is too simplistic/systematic
Retype new password: Changing password for mchavoshi.
Password has been already used.
Password changed.
New password: BAD PASSWORD: it is too simplistic/systematic
Retype new password: Changing password for user mchavoshi.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
New password: Retype new password: Changing password for user mchavoshi.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
root@tstnglbz1 #
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Originally Posted by drysdalk
Hi,
Good to know that the problem is now identified and that you have a working solution for the Linux systems, at least. As for the Solaris one, you'll most likely have to find an alternative way of re-setting the password for that one host, or find one other common method that works across all platforms. The 'chpasswd' and 'usermod' ideas mentioned by RudiC and Chubler_XL would certainly be the best place to start.
I don't readily have access to a Solaris system to test things on myself just now, but will have a play about this evening if I can if you're still in need of an answer then.
So, apparently (as far as I can tell) Solaris doesn't have the chpasswd command and doesn't support "usermod -w" switch to change passwords non-interactively. Strange, but true (again, as far as I can tell).
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Reason: RudiC Added CODE tags.; rbatte1 removed expletive
I've looked into this a bit further, although I don't myself have a full Oracle Solaris system to test on; rather, at home I have a system running Tribblix, an Illumos distro. So there will certainly be some differences beween that and Oracle's Solaris, which I can't really legitimately run for free at the moment due to the licensing requirements it has.
Anyway, I tend to agree that based on both my own findings on my system and what I've read elsewhere that you're going to have to find a more complicated solution here. An expect script might be the kind of road you have to go down, or a Perl script or somesuch. As an absolute last resort you could do something that directly manipulates /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but I can't stress how strongly enough I recommend not doing that.
Apparently, Solaris & Linux are a lot different and NOT just a little. I couldn't get the simple scp command to work on Solaris and it worked perfectly on all flavors of Linux.
Code:
scp -r tstnglbz1:/export/home/mchavoshi/bin
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