Mass Password Reset

[Vishal Phlad_1]

Hi,

How does one reset (to a standard password) and exprire passwords (so a user has to change to a new password the first time they login) for all users in a system except for root.

[Pete Randall]

Use "modprpw -E" (assuming this is a trusted system). However, this does *ALL* users, including root.


Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Vishal,

cat /etc/passwd | | awk -F: '{print $1}' > /tmp/list
#maybe break and edit the list

while read -r username
do

passwd -l $username
done < /tmp/list

rm -f /tmp/list


Stick any passwd command you need in the loop.

SEP

[Vishal Phlad_1]

Hi,

Thanks for the responses.
It is a trusted system.

modprpw -E -> I can use this to expire all passwords.

In the response from SEP how does one supply the password to be used.