Generates a new pasword for a user AUTOMATICALLY

[Juan Carlos González]

Hi all! (Hola a todos)

I have a question about generating a new password for any user in automatically form.

For example, in AIX systems, this subrutine is called "newpass Subroutine".

Do you know anything about it?

Thank you, very much. (Muchas gracias)

[Stephanie Miller]

Hola Juan Carlos,

Are you familiar with the 'passwd' command? It can be used at any shell prompt to set the password for a particular user. More details can be found by reading 'man passwd'

Cheers,
-Stephanie

[Andrew Maslin]

Hi Juan,

You can choose to have the system generate a password for users when they use the passwd command, and you could set up a script to run the passwd command if your users do not access the shell. If I remember correctly, your system must be set up as a trusted system for this. If you are not already set up as a trusted system, you can do so through SAM. The different password options (ie. allowing the user to choose a password, or 3 different types of automatically generated passwords) can also be set through SAM.

[Angel_5]

Leea las el man de passwd, yo puedo forzar a que el passwd sea cambiado en un tiempo determinado por ejemplo
adaa9901:,2.:106:20:Alexander Jimenez Roman,Estadistica,4138,:/ho
me/hip/adaa9901:/usr/bin/sh

el ,2. despues del login indica que el usuario debe cambiar automaticamente de passwd.

[Juan Carlos González]

Gracias , pero yo no quiero forzar al usuario a que cambie la password , quiero que sea un proceso automatico lanzado por el cron el que se la cambie al usuario.