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Re: Change Password In A Shell Script (with perl)

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Sep 11th, 2006

Hi. This is what I've put together so far. Can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong? I've searched the web and read the manuals but I just can't see how to get the communication with passwd to go directly through the terminal. I think I need to make the newly opened tty the controling tty but apparently don't know how.

I am working on AIX 5.2 and am not allowed to install IO:

ty or expect. So I need to roll my own.

Thank you very much for any pointers.

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Re: Change Password In A Shell Script

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Hi. It works now. The attached script works on SYS V type terminals and was tested on AIX 5.3. I will eventually get it working on Sun and Linux and will need to work out the Berkly style TTYs which involves a bit of code similar to:

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found: {
  for $bank ('p'..'z') {
    for $unit (('0'..'9'),('a'..'f')) {
      # +> : access in read/write mode
      open(PTY, "+>/dev/pty$bank$unit") || next;
      $s = select(PTY); $| = 1; select($s);
      open(TTY, "+>/dev/tty$bank$unit") || next;
      $s = select(TTY); $| = 1; select($s);
      last found;
      }
    }
  die "$0: Cannot find a free pty\n";
  }

Let me know if anybody cares.

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Re: Change Password In A Shell Script

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I am interested if you ever get the Berkly style working, I would like to see it.

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Re: Change Password In A Shell Script

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Originally Posted by cwb

I am interested if you ever get the Berkly style working, I would like to see it.

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Hi Amit,

Im looking for the script which you have for changing password on multiple servers. Would you mind sending them to me at.

Thanks and regards,
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Hi folks !!!!

First of all i am sorry for not replying to your posts.

Please let me know if you still require the script and i will post it in the thread.

Thanks,
Amit

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Re: Change Password In A Shell Script

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Originally Posted by kamitsin

Hi folks !!!!

First of all i am sorry for not replying to your posts.

Please let me know if you still require the script and i will post it in the thread.

Thanks,
Amit

If you could post the script I would very much appreciate it

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Re: Change Password In A Shell Script

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Originally Posted by kamitsin

i am using a shell script which changes the password of all the servers in the network and also of the host server (as per your requirement) but it uses except.

Earlier i had a perl script to change the password.

If you want i can give you both the scripts and you can modify them as per your requirement.

Amit

Hello Amit,
I was looking out for such script. I have to change user password for several servers.Would you mind sending me both the scripts at neha.ao@gmail.com ? It would be a great help.

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Re: Change Password In A Shell Script

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Oct 15th, 2007

Hello AMIT,

I almost need the same script. What I have is a root password which needs to be same on all servers. So these would be the requirements
> Script will have the root password
> The script will change the existing password and will insert the one which I have give
> Later it will ask me to type it from the keyboard to verify it
Do u have such kind off script..It would be great if you can please share it
Sri

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Originally Posted by kamitsin

i am using a shell script which changes the password of all the servers in the network and also of the host server (as per your requirement) but it uses except.

Earlier i had a perl script to change the password.

If you want i can give you both the scripts and you can modify them as per your requirement.

Amit

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Re: Change Password In A Shell Script

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Jan 29th, 2008

Amit,
First, THANK YOU for posting the script.

I get the following error when attempting to run this on a SUN box.

Can't open a pseudo-terminal. No such file or directory at ttypasswd.pl line 26.

I'm hoping to change the root password across many servers via a script. This script appears to change the password for the initiating user.

On my target servers, I'll need to su - to the root account since we can't login directly as root.

I have a file that contains that the hostnames for all my target servers and I would like the script to parse this file.

Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide.
Chris

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Re: Change Password In A Shell Script

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hello Amit,

I also need change user password across multiple servers, could you send both of your scripts to bjgyking@163.com.
Your help will be highly apprieciated!!!