From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 5 09:32:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F60C16A41F for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:32:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AFE43D53 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:32:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:9999 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EN5dK-000CKq-Pr; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:32:19 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C86C154FD1; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:34:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0AD5978B5; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:32:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:32:12 +0200 From: albi To: sulie halim 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:32:38 -0000 On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 18:36:28 -0700 (PDT) sulie halim 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