chpasswd command on HP??

[Richard Ross]

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

[Pete Randall]

passwd


Pete

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

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

[Richard Ross]

Anil,

Thanks .. That will do just fine ;-)

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

[Richard Ross]

Anil,

Is there any documentation on usermod.sam?

Thanks

[RAC_1]

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