[98305] in RedHat Linux List
passwd/shadow parsing script
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Toby Herring)
Sun Nov 8 00:48:38 1998
Reply-To: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
From: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 00:48:08 -0500
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OK, next question. (While reading this, please keep in mind that I am NOT a
programmer. Or at least I haven't done any programming in about 10 years or
so.)
Anyone know where I can find a shell script (bash) or Perl script (5.04)
that will parse the entries in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow (depending on
installation, obviously), find a specific user, and replace a specific field
of the entry? (This time around, I want to remove the password, but in the
future I may want to use it to manipulate other fields.)
Even better would be a script that could accept a file containing a list of
usernames, and perform a specific field modification on all of those users
entries in the passwd/shadow file. (i.e. I have a "project leader" provide
me with a list of personnel assigned to their "project," create a custom
group for that project, then use the script to mass-modify all of those
users to add them to the group.) Another possibility is if I were to for
one reason or another need to force expiration of all passwords on a
specific date.
--
Toby Herring
IS Coordinator
SyncroFlo, Inc.
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