Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:26:37 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password changes Message-ID: <200112120326.fBC3QbI86884@thistle.bogs.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:41:02 PST." <A6A82340FB3DB643A0678E3B10CD5AC1062F55@xela.oopz.com>
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In message <A6A82340FB3DB643A0678E3B10CD5AC1062F55@xela.oopz.com>, "Noah Davidson" cleopede: >How can I change the password of a user and not be prompted to verify >it. We are changing our mail server to sendmail. I have all of the >passwords in plain text. I want to write a script that changes all 5000 >or so passwords. How can I do this? I would like to call passwd or >some command from a perl script to do this. Any Ideas would be very >helpful. If you are in a Very Secure Environment (and, if you have all the passwords in a plain text file, you must be), then I think what would I would try is to encrypt the plain-text passwords--using makekey(8) should work--then using vipw, write out the lines you need to change into a file, insert the encrypted passwords using whatever method you are familiar with, and then read the resulting lines back into the vipw session. Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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