Re: Password reset for unix

2011-05-03 Thread krish
On May 2, 11:51 pm, ag4ve...@gmail.com (shawn wilson) wrote: > On May 2, 2011 2:14 PM, "Kenneth Wolcott" wrote: > > > > >   It looks like you have a great working system for annually forcing > > the change of UNIX passwords in a systematic manner, but it would > > definitely not be good to emulate

Re: Password reset for unix

2011-05-02 Thread shawn wilson
On May 2, 2011 2:14 PM, "Kenneth Wolcott" wrote: > > It looks like you have a great working system for annually forcing > the change of UNIX passwords in a systematic manner, but it would > definitely not be good to emulate your system in the general case > because very few people on this list (

Re: Password reset for unix

2011-05-02 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 08:17, Jim Gibson wrote: > > At 10:46 PM -0400 5/1/11, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> jim, you setup your boxes a certain way to make sure this doesn't fail? > > > No. The systems are plain vanilla Red Hat Linux (old versions because they > run proprietary software). > >> >> so,

Re: Password reset for unix

2011-05-02 Thread Jim Gibson
At 10:46 PM -0400 5/1/11, shawn wilson wrote: jim, you setup your boxes a certain way to make sure this doesn't fail? No. The systems are plain vanilla Red Hat Linux (old versions because they run proprietary software). so, the problems i see with this: 1. password schema - newer systems

Re: Password reset for unix

2011-05-01 Thread shawn wilson
jim, you setup your boxes a certain way to make sure this doesn't fail? On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Jim Gibson wrote: > At 5:22 PM -0700 4/30/11, dolphin wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> To reset password in unix, the system will prompt 2 times for entering >> the new password. The first time is to en

Re: Password reset for unix

2011-05-01 Thread Jim Gibson
At 5:22 PM -0700 4/30/11, dolphin wrote: Hi, To reset password in unix, the system will prompt 2 times for entering the new password. The first time is to enter the new password and the second time is to confirm the new password of the account. It is tedious to perform this when there is a huge

Re: Password reset for unix

2011-05-01 Thread shawn wilson
On May 1, 2011 7:24 PM, "dolphin" wrote: > > Hi, > > To reset password in unix, the system will prompt 2 times for entering > the new password. The first time is to enter the new password and the > second time is to confirm the new password of the account. It is > tedious to perform this when ther

Re: Password reset for unix

2011-05-01 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 17:22, dolphin wrote: > Hi, > > To reset password in unix, the system will prompt 2 times for entering > the new password. The first time is to enter the new password and the > second time is to confirm the new password of the account. It is > tedious to perform this when

Password reset for unix

2011-05-01 Thread dolphin
Hi, To reset password in unix, the system will prompt 2 times for entering the new password. The first time is to enter the new password and the second time is to confirm the new password of the account. It is tedious to perform this when there is a huge volume (>100) of user accounts. Is it possi