topic Re: Script for password aggining and forcible change in Operating System - Linux

Script for password aggining and forcible change

johnreid — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:53:56 GMT

Hello ,

I have 50 user whose accounts were already created in 20 servers , but we were misssout the password forcible change and password agging, Please help to get the script for this activity , You are most appriciated.

Regards
John.

Re: Script for password aggining and forcible change

Shrikant Lavhate — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:57:49 GMT

A script by Clay may help you:
check this link
http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1132526&admit=109447627+1197637026655+28353475

Re: Script for password aggining and forcible change

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:06:14 GMT

Hi JohN:

Given a file of the account names, one per line; call the file 'mynames' and do:

while read NAME
do
passwd -x 30 ${NAME}
done < mynames

...This will set the password expiration time to 30-days.

See the manpages for 'passwd' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...