Thanks everyone for your help. Below is what I ended with and it works great. The command looks at the user, resets the password lifetime expired if needed then generates a temp password and displays on the screen, the sleep 10, is set to allow the Help Desk to write the number down and pass it on to the user, in turn they (user) can logon and rest their password
The last step of this is to add the script to the 3 servers I have and allow the Help Desk to logon using sudo. The next in the tread will be asking "How do I set the Help Desk up as a sudo user to have root access for this script" The password resets need to have root access. I have set up local users in the sudoers, any thoughts or ideas would be apperciated
5) echo "Username to modify \c"; read USER
TESTUSER=`awk -v USER=${USER} -F: '$1~USER { print $1 }' /etc/passwd`
if test "${USER}" != "${TESTUSER}"
then
echo "${USER} is invalid!"
echo "Press [ENTER] to continue. \c"
read NOTHING
else
#This command looks at the account if it has a password liftime expired it will reset the account and enable it and resets pasword
/usr/lbin/modprpw -x ${USER}
sleep 10
