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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all. I need a shell script that can, in short, read through a text file line by line and create a new user in Ubuntu, as well as assign that user to a group. The format of the text file is not important but preferably: 'username:group'. I don't have much programming knowledge no matter shell... (3 Replies)
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2. Solaris
Hi, was after some help for the following. I want to enforce local passwd authentication for service accounts and kerberos authentication for users.
Solaris 11 lets me assign different PAM modules to specific users via usermod and linux lets me define via UID, but I can't find a way to do this... (0 Replies)
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3. Solaris
I am on SunOS SolarisServer 5.11 11.1 i86pc i386 i86pc , I am trying to change password for a user,but I get the following message.I cannot find any google help on the matter.can anyone help?
root@SolarisServer:~# passwd
passwd: Changing password for stain
Please try again
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4. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
Hi there,
I'm working with a Linux server and now I can get a daily Logwatch mail ... my question is:since there are too many users with root password (...in my opinion... :mad:) how could I prevent to delete information about "su" log?
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
We have a server where we have a number of user ids and we also have the list of old passwords in a CSV file.
Now we want to change the password of all the users and assign them a default password.Can we write a shell script to do that.
I am planning to read the user name and corresponding... (7 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all
I have some 106 users of which i need to change the password of them to a common one. I dont know their paswword. But i need to reset them to a common one. How can i do this with a shell script? It would be a great help if some one can help to sort out this.:b::b:
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I know how to change permissions for the owner, group or others.
if I want a file readable for a group A of users
and writable for a group B how can I do it ?
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How can I know users have changed their passwords ? I don't need their password (!) I have to know if they have changed their pass word and when ?
Thank you in advance for any SIMPLE answer. (6 Replies)
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9. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
Hi!!
How can I list the password settings for all the users??
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
What would be the best way to extract a users home from /etc/passwd. I intended to use cut but have been semi advised that a can do it using and eval statement and the ~ operator. Unfortunately this was just a casual conversation so made little sense at the time. Any help much appreciated.
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