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chpasswd command on HP??

Richard Ross — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:15:51 GMT

Guys .. Both AIX and Linux have a command 'chpasswd' that allows you to change a user's password utilizing standard input .. Is there such a command for HP? (Does not need to be native)

Thanks

Re: chpasswd command on HP??

Pete Randall — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:19:17 GMT

passwd

Pete

Re: chpasswd command on HP??

RAC_1 — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:22:15 GMT

Yes, not very similar, but should server your purpose.

/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam

You use it as follows.

usermod.dam -p "encrypted_pass" "user_name"

The pass has to be 10 chars long-8 chars as passwd and two salt chars. you can use /usr/lbin/makekey to prepeare encryoted pass.

Anil

Re: chpasswd command on HP??

Richard Ross — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:53:26 GMT

Anil,

Thanks .. That will do just fine ;-)

Pete .. passwd does not utilize standard in which leaves you to responding to the prompts.

Re: chpasswd command on HP??

Richard Ross — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:31:34 GMT

Anil,

Is there any documentation on usermod.sam?

Thanks

Re: chpasswd command on HP??

RAC_1 — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:08:52 GMT

I think NO. I think it is just SAM that uses it and it is linked to /usr/sbin/usermod.

Apart from that you can also use "except" tool. You can also directly paste encrypted password in password field-no a good way though.

Anil

Re: chpasswd command on HP??

James Calfas — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:50:08 GMT

I typed "man usermod" and got full documentation on the command. I am using HP-UX 11i version 3.