Hi here was my original question most people said to write a script
to do it and gave examples.
Hi, I want to expire all my NIS+ user accounts in the nispasswd file so that
the user will have to enter a new password the next time they log in.
Can anyone please tell me the command to change all user accounts at the
same
time to expired or am I going to have to change each one individually in the
GUI??
Is expired the way to go if I want them to have to set a new password and
have
to type in their old password?
THanks
Dave Martini
LLNL
How about a simple script to run the passwd -f command. Such as:
foreach username(`awk '{print $1}' /etc/passwd`)
/usr/bin/passwd -r nisplus -f $username
end
No one command, but this will do the trick.
awk -F ":" '$3 > 100 { print "passwd -f",$1}' /etc/passwd | /bin/sh
OR
for U in awk -F ":" '$3 > 100 {print $1}' /etc/passwd
do
passwd -f $U
done
Choose a UID high enough to avoid the root, bin, DBA and other users you
don't want to do this to.
Bill
I dont know how proficient you are with scripting, but this is what I would
do.
nidaddent -d shadow > /tmp/nisshadow
That will put the NIS shadow file into a text file named /tmp/nisshadow.
Then, write a script that manually changes the expiration of the passwords
on that file.
Then, when you are done,
nisaddent -mvt shadow /tmp/nisshadow
That will merge the /tmp/nisshadow file back into the NIS+ shadow map.
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