On Oct 7, 2005, at 3:12 AM, Martin Fitzgibbons wrote:
Is there any way to use ARD to change the admin password of each
machine?
Martin
Yes, use dscl. From a previous posting on the list:
This has been discussed before (see below). After changing the admin
password, I think you need to reset ARD permissions for that user.
i.e.:
kickstart -configure -privs -all -users admin
I think you can run both commands (as root) via ARD thusly:
dscl . -passwd /Users/admin oldpass newpass ; kickstart
-configure -privs -all -users admin
(if you don't run both at the same time, you'll have to ssh from the
Terminal to each machine!)
This comes up often on this and the Client Management list so you
might want
to check the archive because there were several methods suggested.
Also
afp548.com has an article as well.
I issue the following Unix Command as root from ARD.
dscl . -passwd /Users/USERNAME OLDPASSWORD NEWPASSWORD
It was suggested from one of these lists with more detail. It does not
appear to work on 10.2.8 computers but is great for 10.3.*.
_Jason
