On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Rohan Almeida wrote:
> "mahesh raghunathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thus wrote:
> > Is there any way to change the passwd in a bulk. I have 125 users
> > in my linux box. I wanted to change the passwds for all these
> > users in batch.
> > Any command or utilities available ?
>
> Not really...
what's wrong with running passwd in a loop with the --stdin flag?
for i in `cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '$3>=500{print $1}'; do
echo -e "new_password" | passwd --stdin $i
done
This has to be run as root.
Philip
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