Re: password change

2004-06-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joost De Cock: > On Wednesday 09 June 2004 14:04, Michael Martinell hurled the following on the > wire: > > Is there a way to script out the changing of passwords at the command line. > > > > I have about 60 passwords to change manually, according to federal policy. > > apt-get inst

Re: password change

2004-06-09 Thread Joost De Cock
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 14:04, Michael Martinell hurled the following on the wire: > Is there a way to script out the changing of passwords at the command line. > > I have about 60 passwords to change manually, according to federal policy. > In windows I would just do a net user username passwor

Re: password change

2004-06-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:04, Michael Martinell wrote: > Is there a way to script out the changing of passwords at the command line. > > I have about 60 passwords to change manually, according to federal policy. > In windows I would just do a net user username password > Is there no similar linux c

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Brian May
> "Damian" == Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Damian> My suggestion follows: One possibility is to take Damian> advantage of NIS. On the server machine you have a second Or openldap. Although, LDAP is (IMHO) currently harder to configure, especially if you not use to LDAP

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > > Set root's shell to whichever you prefer, and set > > > the regular user's shell to /usr/bin/passwd. > > > > Yeah...I thought of this at first, but I need a solution that doesn't > > mess with the passwd file at all, as the passwd file is distribute

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
> > Set root's shell to whichever you prefer, and set > > the regular user's shell to /usr/bin/passwd. > > Yeah...I thought of this at first, but I need a solution that doesn't > mess with the passwd file at all, as the passwd file is distributed to > other machines on a regular basis, and the use

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Whelan
Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Daniel Whelan wrote: > > > I'm currently configuring a machine to be the master password machine > > for a large network of machines. Is there a way to configure it to allow > > only root to get an actual console, and to have all other users > > redir

Re: Password Change Machine

2000-10-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Daniel Whelan wrote: > I'm currently configuring a machine to be the master password machine > for a large network of machines. Is there a way to configure it to allow > only root to get an actual console, and to have all other users > redirected to a password change program?