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non-interactive passwd.

Richard_115 — Mon, 08 May 2006 09:02:37 GMT

All
Does anyone know if it is possible to create a user account and passwd using the command useradd. I want to create a login ID for several users across over 200 systems and I wanted to use this command to run it across all the systems from a single system in a loop. I know I can create a user ID but I am defeated to create a passord and I want it to expire immediately... Any Ideas ??????

Re: non-interactive passwd.

Peter Godron — Mon, 08 May 2006 09:21:21 GMT

Richard,
have you looked at this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=29109

Re: non-interactive passwd.

Greg Vaidman — Mon, 08 May 2006 15:09:22 GMT

go into sam and add a test user. set the password you want to use for your real user. then use the samlog_viewer to see the command that was executed - it's called "useradd.sam". It's basically the same as the useradd command, but with an additional parameter to specify the encrypted password. find the encrypted password that was set for your sample user from the log.

to run this command on 200 systems, you'll probably want to set up a key-based ssh trust (or rlogin/remsh/.rhosts, if you don't care about security), so that you can execute remote commands.

if you want to expire the password, you'll also need to run "passwd -f " (or the corresponding "modprpw" command if running trusted systems).