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Commands using passwd

Terminal - Commands using passwd - 13 results

getent passwd | cut -d: -f1 | sort

2012-09-12 17:16:54

User: theftf

Functions: cut getent passwd

Tags: sort password users

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Lists all usernames in alphabetical order

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echo -e "new_password\nnew_password" | (passwd --stdin $USER)

2011-10-06 18:56:16

User: bageera

Functions: echo passwd

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Changes a User Password via command line without promt

Used to change a password via a winscp faux shell

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getent passwd $(whoami) | echo "$(perl -ne '/^([^:]+):[^:]+:[^:]+:[^:]+:([^ ]+) ?([^,]+)?,([^,]*),([^,]*),([^:,]*),?([^:,]*)/ and printf "MECARD:N:$3,$2;ADR:$5;TEL:$4;TEL:$6;EMAIL:$1@"')$HOSTNAME;;" | qrencode -o myqr.png

2011-07-25 12:59:57

User: Strawp

Functions: echo getent passwd

Tags: perl qr qrencode

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Create a QR code image in MECARD format

If your contact information was entered when your user account was created (it gets added to /etc/passwd) then this gets that info and creates a QR code for you automatically

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getent passwd $(whoami) | cut -f 5 -d: | cut -f 1 -d,

2011-01-07 22:43:09

User: binfalse

Functions: cut getent passwd

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Terminal - Prints out, what the users name, notifyed in the gecos field, is

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getent passwd | awk -F: '($3>600) && ($3<10000) && ($3>maxuid) { maxuid=$3; } END { print maxuid+1; }'

2010-05-25 12:27:33

User: bunam

Functions: awk getent passwd

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Determine next available UID

better with accounts on ldap

passwd -d $USER

2010-05-07 07:15:09

User: TheFox

Functions: passwd

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Enable passwordless login

-d, --delete

Delete a user?s password (make it empty). This is a quick way to disable a password for an account. It will set the named account passwordless.

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zenity --title passwd --width 800 --height 600 --text-info --filename /etc/passwd

2010-04-16 04:20:52

User: rkulla

Functions: passwd

Tags: gtk GUI window zenity dialog

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Open a file in a GTK+ dialog window

I use zenity because it's a rewrite of gdialog and also replaces gmessage and has more useful options.

Using --text-info allows you to select and copy the text to your clipboard.

To see a file in a list dialog: cat /etc/passwd | zenity --width 800 --height 600 --list --column Entries

If you don't have zenity, you'll have to download it via apt-get install zenity, etc.

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awk -F":" '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd | while read UU ; do STATUS=$(passwd -S ${UU} | grep locked 2>/dev/null) ; if [[ ! -z ${STATUS} ]] ; then echo "Account ${UU} is locked." ; fi ; done

2009-12-18 14:28:15

User: unixhome

Functions: awk echo grep passwd read

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Sometimes you just want a quick way to find out if a certain user account is locked [Linux].

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while IFS=: read u x; do passwd -e "$u"; done < /etc/passwd

2009-11-20 21:49:34

User: cfajohnson

Functions: passwd read

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force change password for all user

This assumes that te original's 'passwd -e' forces a user to change password; it doesn't in the versions I have.

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getent passwd|cut -d: -f1|xargs -n1 passwd -e

2009-11-18 19:46:15

User: romulusnr

Functions: cut getent passwd xargs

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force change password for all user

Alternately for those without getent or only want to work on local users it's even easier:

cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd|xargs -n1 passwd -e

Note that not all implementations of passwd support -e. On RH it would be passwd -x0 (?) and on Solaris it would be passwd -f.

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for i in `cat /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{ print $1 }';`; do passwd -e $i; done

2009-11-11 13:01:22

User: irraz

Functions: awk passwd

-1

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force change password for all user

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echo "encryptedpassword"|openssl passwd -1 -stdin

2009-03-15 17:06:50

User: chmouel

Functions: echo passwd

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Generate secure password to userwith chpasswd

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for name in larry moe schemp; do useradd $name; echo 'password' | passwd --stdin $name; chage -d 0 $name; done

2009-03-15 12:02:39

User: atoponce

Functions: chage echo passwd useradd

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Quickly add user accounts to the system and force a password change on first login

This command is a bit Linux specific, as --stdin doesn't exist for passwd on many Unix machines. Further, useradd is high level in most distributions and Unix derivatives except for the Debian family of distros, where adduser would be more appropriate. The last bit, with chage, will force the user to change their password on new login.

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