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Re: How to check passwords


On 29 Jun 2005, at 18:37, Timothy K. Wilkinson wrote:

We're going to start instituting a policy where users will have to change

their password from the default they were given.  We'd like to see which

users have never changed their password so we can email them and get them to

change their passwords before we do.  Is there a script/tool somewhere we

can use to check their passwords against the known default they have?


We're running 10.3.9 server.


Thanks,


Tim Wilkinson      



/usr/bin/dscl will let you test password validity ie:

/usr/bin/dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 authonly matt knownpasswd

would test the password 'knownpasswd' for the user matt in the LDAP directory (if run on an OD master or replica); change your datasource to suit. man dscl for more details.

You can of course set a policy to force password changes for your users within WGM.

HTH

matt jenns

PS my password isn't really 'knownpasswd' :-)
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