Re: Change password
Re: Change password
- Subject: Re: Change password
- From: Rob Morton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:38:45 -0400
on 7/28/02 4:46 PM, Garry Stokes at email@hidden wrote:
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On 19/7/02 12:44 AM, "Rob Morton" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I am trying to come up with a way to change the password to a default
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> password using AppleScript.
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> Essentially, I am creating a new user with some defaults set. I can do most
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> of it except the password.
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> Anyone have a suggestion for scripting this? Yes, we will be walking the
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> user through a password change, so I really do not care what the password is
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> changed to. I just need a generic password that a technician can use to
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> login as the user for the final setup steps.
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Are you doing this in OSX?
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If so try running a terminal script using niutil.
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man niutil
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Look in archives of osx server list for "crypt"
Unfortunately, neither of these really helped. I am using niutil pretty
extensively in creating the user, but the password can not be done the same
since it is luckily not clear text. I would need to basically run a command
like passwd <user name> that could change the password (not sure how it
would interact with NetInfo), but this will not work since do shell script
does not understand the concept of interaction. Since I would need to enter
the new password twice, this would not work even if it did change the
NetInfo database correctly. Anyway, if anyone has a work around, I would be
happy. For now, I just open the Users system preference panel.
Rob Morton
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