topic Re: Resetting password in Operating System - HP-UX

Resetting password

laiju.c.babu — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:58:46 GMT

Hi Team,

I have to change the password of a normal user in my Unix machines .. I have more than 500 machines . Its very difficult to login to each machine and do , could any one please help me to provide a script to do this. The details are as follows :

OS === HPunix 11iv2

The OS is a trusted server , remsh is already enabled .. Could any one please provide me some light on this ...

I have a file contains the list of all host names ....

Regards

Laiju.C.Babu

Re: Resetting password

Dennis Handly — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:31:36 GMT

>I have a file contains the list of all host names ....

A skeleton would be:

for host in $(< host-list); do

echo "Setting password for host: $host:"

remsh $host -n ...

done

Here are some threads using usermod.sam:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/Using-Makekey-and-Usermod-sam/m-p/4431217/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/usr-sam-lbin-usermod-sam/m-p/4090976/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Security/How-can-I-reset-the-root-password-remotely-on-a-trusted-system/m-p/5342487/highlight/true#M18835www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/script-to-create-new-user-and-set-a-password/m-p/5572149/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/Set-password-script/m-p/3580901/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/Changing-password-on-HPUX-without-asking-for-password/m-p/3377072/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/script-to-Reset-passwd-for-some-particular-user/m-p/3919850/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/Need-to-remove-bug/m-p/4111499/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/Script-for-password/m-p/3817064/

Re: Resetting password

laiju.c.babu — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:13:36 GMT

Hi Dennis Handly,

Thanks a lot for your nice suggetion, this saved my lot of time ..... The syntax which i used is as below

remsh <server name > /usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -p `echo password66 | /usr/lbin/makekey` <user id>

When i am using the above command the passwd for the user is password ...

Once again thanks a lot for your help.. :)

Regards

Laiju.C.Babu