Password change for 500 users

[Joyce Suganthy]

Hi,

I need some help, i am having a trusted system and have almost 500 users in there.

I need to change the password of all these users. Is there any scripts in any of your keeping that does in a for loop, a user is picked up, then prompts for password, i key in the password, then it goes and pick the next user from the /etc/passwd file....prompt for password, i key in and then the process goes on...

Thanks

Regards
Joyce

[Sanjiv Sharma_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Joyce,

This may get you started.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=48946
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=227228

hth.

[Steven E. Protter]

This utility script contains the code(maybe commented) that will help you get the job done.

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[Steven E. Protter]

This utility script contains the code(maybe commented) that will help you get the job done.

#!/sbin/sh

MINDAYS=7
MAXDAYS=61

useradd -D -g sag
useradd -D
# for user in `awk '{ FS=":"; print $1 $5 $6 }' /root/passwd'
# for user in `awk '{ FS=":"; print $1 $5 $6 }' /root/passwd`
for user in `awk '{ FS=":"; print $1 }' /root/passwd`
do
# $user=`awk '{ FS=","; print $1 }' $userstring`
# passwd -r file -n $MINDAYS -x $MAXDAYS $user
# echo "$user"
# passwd -f $user
passwd -x 48 $user
/usr/lbin/modprpw -l -k $user
# useradd -m $user
# echo "Command2: passwd -f $user "
done


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