Re: Change password
Re: Change password
- Subject: Re: Change password
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 13:09:37 +0200
Not sure if that already got answered (I'm still very late at reading
this list's messages...), but something like:
openssl passwd -crypt 'cleartext'
could be the key to your needs. Just put the result of this command as
the user's password in NetInfo if you want him to have 'cleartext' as
password.
HTH (and HNotTooLate)
Axel
Rob Morton wrote:
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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"
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Unfortunately, neither of these really helped. I am using niutil pretty
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extensively in creating the user, but the password can not be done the same
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since it is luckily not clear text. I would need to basically run a command
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like passwd <user name> that could change the password (not sure how it
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would interact with NetInfo), but this will not work since do shell script
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does not understand the concept of interaction. Since I would need to enter
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the new password twice, this would not work even if it did change the
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NetInfo database correctly. Anyway, if anyone has a work around, I would be
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happy. For now, I just open the Users system preference panel.
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Rob Morton
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