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Re: passwd/shadow parsing script
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Whipple)
Mon Nov 9 09:32:26 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 14:31:05 +0000
From: Fred Whipple <fwwhippl@mindless.com>
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Toby Herring wrote:
>
> 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.)
Having just read another answer regarding usermod, and asking a question
about it myself, it seems to me that if there isn't a pre-written script
that you could easily make the usermod command a centerpiece in yourown,
assuming that you can at least do a *little* shell scripting...
-Fred
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