[PLUG] alias users

Don Buchholz buchholz at easystreet.com
Fri Feb 6 16:00:03 UTC 2004


Rich Shepard wrote:

>On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Don Buchholz wrote:
>  
>
>>The simplest way (for a few accounts) is to directly edit the /etc/passwd
>>and /etc/shadow files.  (You might want to: (a) make sure the originals
>>are safe, (b) no other admin is working on user accounts, and (c) no
>>end-users are trying to change their password while doing this work.) If
>>you've got a bunch (more than 20-30), you may want to use a small script
>>to help.
>>    
>>
>
>  Why wouldn't one use pwunconv to remove the shadow password file first?
>Then, after dinking around with the password file, run pwconv to regenerate
>the shadow file from the one, changed one?
>
>  
>
... 'cuz I never knew pwunconv(8) existed.  (I've been pretty much of 
the philosophy
"/etc/shadow is good ... why would I ever want to go back?"  :-)





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