passwd - can it be used in batch mode?

[Scott Williams_5]

I have two questions:
1. On a 11.0 "trusted" system, is there any way to simplify the changing of several hundered user passwords?

2. Do I have to add each user via sam, or is there a faster way?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Scott,

You can use 'expect' to do it for you. You need to do some scripting using expect but there are numerous examples that come with this tool. It is very helpful if you have several hundreds of users to be modified.

You can get the tool from


http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Tcl/expect-5.33/

It needs TCL/TK libraries also.

-Sri

[Scott Williams_5]

Sounds perfect -- Thanks so much!

Scott