Common password for test accounts

[Renante M. Yu_1]

Hi, We're having a testing and I am tasked to create a hundreds of test accounts in HPUX11.11. I already have had this test accounts but my problem was I need to provide them a common password. Please provide me some script to change all the passwords into one.

Thanks

[Umapathy S]

Renante,
passwd is an interactive command. You need expect to do this.
http://expect.nist.gov/

HTH,
Umapathy

[Umapathy S]

hi (again),

Check these threads..
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x23cecf38d6bdd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xf88f19434a69d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html

HTH,
Umapathy

[Pete Randall]

Use SAM (or your favorite method) to set up one test account. Then use vi to duplicate the /etc/passwd entry 99 times and simply change the user name and uid on each entry. You could possibly even script this.


Pete

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Adding to what Pete has already mentioned, if your system is trusted or shadowed, make sure that you also update the shadow files or the /tcb files for the new accounts accordingly.

Back to your query, simply use awk to replace the password field in /etc/passwd, shadow or /tcb files, depending on which ones you are using.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong