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Reset all userid simultaneous

Sarah Mokwana — Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:45:59 GMT

The customer has a trusted system with more than 200 users. He wants to know if the is a command or a way that he can reset all 200 userid simultaneously, so that each time they login the system prompt for a new password. Cu knows that through SAM you can do that but one userid at a time and cu cannot manage to that a user at a time.He needs a command that can bundle all users(e.g on SAM->users..then you select the userid and set the permission you want on password option)so su does not want to do as per SAM.

Re: Reset all userid simultaneous

Barry O Flanagan — Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:17:31 GMT

Heres a little awk script that should reset each of the users in /etc/passwd one by one :

awk -F: '{ print "passwd -f " $1 }' /etc/passwd | sh

Re: Reset all userid simultaneous

Barry O Flanagan — Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:22:23 GMT

Of course this will only expire all the users passwords so they have to enter a new password when the login again! It won't actually 'set' the users passwords for them.

Re: Reset all userid simultaneous

Junior C. — Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:29:03 GMT

Sarah,

You can run the following command cut -d : f1 /etc/passwd > "users login id"
edit the file, deleting root bin sys oracle etc.
Then run for loop on "user login id" file to force all users to change password on next login.

Re: Reset all userid simultaneous

Vincenzo Restuccia — Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:05:11 GMT

You can see:
usermod [-u uid [-o] ] [-g group] [-G group [, group...]] [-d dir [-m] ] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-f inactive] [-l new_logname] [-e expire] login

Re: Reset all userid simultaneous

Wieslaw Krajewski — Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:44:50 GMT

Hi,

As I've uderstood well, Sarah mentioned trusted system,
what means C2 security level. If so, all valid information about accounts and passwords is stored in files in
/tcb/files/auth/[A-Za-z].
For example info about user account bill is stored in the file /tcb/files/auth/b/bill

As concerns password aging in such file it is neceesary to define parameters as in the example below:

u_minchg#0:u_exp#0:u_life#86400:u_succhng#0:
where
u_minchg#0 means that password can be change immediately
u_exp#0 means that password is valid 0 days (exactly seconds)
u_life#86400 means the password life time equal to 1 day or 86400 seconds
u_succhng#0 means that the password should be changed at the next login.
This last parameter changes value to sth much more than 0 after changing password by user. And according to man 4 prpwd is not recommended to be changed manually.
But I did it and it works.
So to conclude, Sarah you should write a script, shell script for example to include such line or modify this line if already included for respective files for all users.
Seems to be not too difficult, but takes some time especially for testing.

Hpe this short explanation helps to take right decision.
Rgds.