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Does anyone know of a utility or a method of easily changing user account passwords once they have expired ? I have about 75 users on 20+ machines. I, as the admin, will generate new passwords for them every 4months but need a method of doing so other than just running passwd for each account...

thanks for your response ! The tape drive is available ( not just defined) The tape drive is ibm 12/24/gb, F/C 6159 AIX 4.1 is my OS version Here is output from the system: /xalocal/config/debug> lsdev -Cc tape rmt0 Available 04-C0-00-5,0 SCSI 4mm Tape Drive rmt1 Available 04-06-00-0,0 4.0 GB...

I am having trouble adding a tape drive to my E30, AIX v 4.1 Although the tape drive appears as defined/available with the lsdev -Cc tape, it will not respond to tar commands. I eventually deleted all refereces to the device (rmt0, rmt1 etc.) and deleted them from the permanent database as...

Here is your answer....... Yes, umask is what controls file permissions for copied files but not the user's umask. The ftp daemon's umask is what you need to alter....... In AIX: /etc/inet.inf file contains a list of subsystems to start at startup by the inet daemon. ftp is one listed here...

I want to write files to a TTY port ( TTY 1) on my AIX machine. I have defined TTY1 and attempted to issue a command to it ( ls -al > /dev/tty1) but nothing happens. What else do I need to do ? thank-you, mitchy martell ( famous french race car driver)

Is the Kedit editor available for AIX ? If not Kedit, is there a similar editor ? - thank you

I have a 3 headed console set up on an ibm AIX machine, version 4.1.5 I am not able to select graphic settings ( 1280x768, etc.) for my second and third graphic adapters and I get just default settings for these. My first graphics adapter I do get options for settings, an entire list of...

I have a need for users to transfer files to a ftp server which is running AIX 4.1.5. I need to restrict their access to this server to only being able to copy files to a single directory. I definitely do not want them to be able to cd or shell out or run any of the basic UNIX commands except...

aixqueen, Thank-you so much for your timely and most insightful reply !! I have ran the commands on my system as you have stated ( by the way, I'm running AIX 4.1.5) in your email and it looks like the problem is in the ODM upon system startup. I have taken all static route commands out of...

I am attempting to add static routes to /etc/rc.net but on system reboot I get errors returned in the /tmp/rc.net.out file indicating the route add commands issued for establishing the static routes failed. It gives a message of "file already exists". Its's as though routes are already...