On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Another issue here, at least in our application of it, is about adding
> users and setting passwords. With well over 100 machines, we want to
> also have installed user accounts for our engineers. Again, nightmareish
> to consider doing manually.
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> Such a script used at startup could contain also the account name and
> perhaps the "crypted" form of the password, and some other utility would
> need to do the magic from there.
>
Either put on the disk or fetch a copy of the master.passwd, copy it
someplace like /root/master.passwd that's on the root partition and do a
passwd_mkdb.
I would suggest, however, setting up ssh on the first pass and maybe a
password on one trusted account that you could install the system(s), go
back to you Favorite Terminal(tm), sit down and use a for loop (or other
automated method ;) to send (ie. via ssh/scp ;) the master.passwd file to
a secure place on the root partition then have ssh execute the remote
command 'passwd_mkdb' on the previously sent file and there you have it.
j
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