automated change of password

[bonsky]

To all,
I have search and read few threads here, but again, i would like to ask all the gurus in the house is there any other simpler way to create a script that can automate a change of user password? Lets assume that i need to change about 400 users to different machines and i have access on via rsa on each one.
Thanks alot!

 

[mrn]

To start with take a look at the FAQ on this forum

faq52-5866

You'll see at the bottom a script called setpass. If you using 5.3 also see chpasswd.

The trickey bit will be running the script on remote servers, for this I'd advise you look at ssh.

One point why do you want to do this? Why not just set the passwd age in /etc/security/user ?

See

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/aix/cmds/aixcmds4/passwd.htm

Mike

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