How to reset multiple users password on Linux
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
How to reset multiple users password on Linux?
Choose a new password using perl with crypt format
#perl -e ‘print crypt(”newpassword”, “salt”),”\n”‘
sal.HhR9nxBk6
Reset password for any userID larger than 499 with new default password “newpassword”
#for acc in $(awk -F: ‘{ if ($3 > 499) { print $1 }}’ /etc/passwd); do
usermod -p sal.HhR9nxBk6 $acc;
done
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