Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:32:12 +0200 From: albi <albi@scii.nl> To: sulie halim <sulie2000@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Password Message-ID: <20051005113212.e651eb13.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051005013628.92865.qmail@web54613.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051005013628.92865.qmail@web54613.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 18:36:28 -0700 (PDT) sulie halim <sulie2000@yahoo.com> wrote: > i am new to freebsd, and now working as an > administrator of my college system, which using > freebsd. my question is, if i have 50 users in the > systems, how can i view all their usernames and > passwords? you can't (unless they use really weak passwords and you want to spend time running password-crackers like "john") > this because i always have problems of them > forgot thier passwords, and they can't log in to the > systems. until now, what i did was, delete their > usernames, and create new ones because i didn't know > what their passwords either. so any other alternative? no need to delete accounts 1) login as root 2) type : passwd username you can also set up usermin and provide them with the "change password" option in usermin after you've "reset" their password to a temporary new one -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import
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