Set a password

[cts123]

Hi,

While setting a password for a user through smitty. It takes the password and when the user logged into the server, it takes that password but ask to put new password immediately.

If I want to change a password for a user from command line ( without knowing old password), hope it works for
AIX 5.3 like :-

# chpasswd user1asswd1 and then ^D

How can I do the same steps, for lowwer version of AIX ( for 4.3.3 or 5.1). Any idea ?

Regards,

Sam

 

[columb]

 passwd <username>

And, if required

pwdadm -c <username>

will stop the user from having to change the password at next login.

On a more general note, a good way to learn AIX is to use SMIT for the first instance and then look through the smit.log to see how it did it. Then use

man <command name>

for more details.

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Columb Healy

 

[cts123]

Thanks Columb,

But I found another way.
If I do passwd <user_name> as root
It ask me to change the passwd.

When that user does log-in to the server, it ask to change the password at very beginning.

So to avoid that I can do this :-

# passwd <user_name> --> Put new passwd

# pwdadm -f NOCHECK <user_name>

Its working in my case.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Sam

 

[bennotech]

Sam,
If you want to go a little deeper and learn a little more about what certain files are used for you can edit the /etc/security/passwd file and remove the 'ADMCHG' flag that is registered against the user when you set their password, only if your confident enough though !
cheers
Benno

...it really does get worse than this !!