Thank you for your answer. The vpn box is a simple openvpn server, so changing the linux users password is simple. I think I am having issues with how to export those values(username and associated) password to a file. Is there an example of this you can point me toward? I am not seeing any online.
Thank you On Friday, 30 August 2019 02:33:20 UTC-4, Dick Visser wrote: > > It depends on what your vpn box looks like and how easy it is to change > passwords on it. > You can loop over the users changing their password to a random value and > then writing those to files named after the user name. > This is just one way of doing it- there are probably more. > > But whatever you come up with, as an affected user I wouldn’t be very > happy if someone else sets a password for me and then copies that around in > plain text files. > You can try to secure this but ultimately it’s best to offer a secure way > for users to do this themselves. Or have the vpn box authenticate users to > some existing directory (both of which might not be possible, depending on > your situation). > > Dick > > > On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 08:20, Andrew Morgan <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I have a task to change all the password on a vpnbox and then give the >> user their password. I have been researching and think I found a way to do >> it, but I am not sure how I then get the password to output to a file to >> then give the user. Is there a way I can go about doing that? After >> assigning a password, out the password that was assigned and the user's >> name to a file. >> >> Thank you >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/5795afb5-a59d-421d-91a2-6b5a645a2c56%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/5795afb5-a59d-421d-91a2-6b5a645a2c56%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from a mobile device - please excuse the brevity, spelling and > punctuation. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/4c5e0a70-5619-4f0d-854c-b11cfa26d26c%40googlegroups.com.
