How to change password ?

[Pepe Jimenez Muñoz]

Hi,

I??m running HP-UX version 10.20 a K260 server.

All user login to the system and they can change his/her password from a shell.

Now we are designing a aplication in PowerBuilder and my question is:

How can change this users his/her password ?

Thanks.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

simple
if you are root and wanted to change user x passwd
# passwd x

if you logged in as user x
then # passwd
will do the job

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

simple
if you are root and wanted to change user x passwd
# passwd x

if you logged in as user x
then $ passwd
will do the job

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

The best way to make the user change the password is do a force change from the first attempt.

# passwd -f username

HTH
-Michael

[Justo Exposito]

Hi Pepe,

If you want to change the password from your application you must do a call system to the appropiate command (passwd), then you must look into the Power Builder in order to find the command that can call to a script or command in HP/UX.

Regards,

Justo.

[Pepe Jimenez Muñoz]

Thanks Justo,

we are in the way...

But, exist a DOS/Windows script to do it ?

Thanks / Gracias

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

You can either use rsh or ssh (the secured implementation of rsh) to perform this in a DOS batch script:

@echo off
rsh -l username host passwd

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Pepe Jimenez Muñoz]

OK.

Thanks Steven I download some ssh clients for DOS and works fine, but passwd need to be interactive, and don??t work.

Now, I need a shell script like this:

changepasswd username password

Thnaks.

[Justo Exposito]

Hola Pepe,

Te contesto en espa??ol ya que es mas sencillo para los dos.

Entiendo que estas en entorno cliente/servidor y por tanto al necesitar que sea interactivo el cambio de password, probablemente lo mas facil de hacer es que abras un telnet a la maquina como usuario de la misma y que todos los usuarios apunten al mismo .profile, en este .profile los puedes tener cautivos en un menu y que solo puedan hacer el cambio de password.

Te adjunto un .profile que te puede servir de ejemplo es sencillo y dejando s??lo la opci??n de cambio de password y cambiando alg??n literal te valdr??.

Un Saludo.

Justo.

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

To overcome the issue that the ssh connection setup prompts interactively for password, you need to build the public-private keypairs and trust relationship between your Windows client and HP-UX server for password to be non-interactive.

For SSH1, it is identity (on client) and authorized.keys (on server). For SSH2, it is identification (on client) and authorization (on server).

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

If you are using SSH Communication's SSH2 client and SSH2 server, I have the detailed steps for non-interactive copy (SCP) here. The same trust setup and establishment is also used for non-interactive host session (SSH):

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xbe69039599eed5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong