Originally posted by: tomislak

Hi,

we would like to automate user creation on new lpars. This would need to be automated for all party ( not only aix admins, but also for users which use thon ais users created). By hand this is as follows:

- create user ( from smit or useradd )

- set initial passwd ( passwd user_name )

- pwdadm -c user_name

- edit /etc/security/passwd stanza with cripted password from some existing host

We would like to automate this, All is clear but last one. How to edit file from script?

Here is a exsample, I need to change red string with similar string:

This need to be automated because we have a lot of lpars and need to add users on majority of them, so manual work is out of question.

Please advice

Originally posted by: tomislak

Hi,

I found solution for this, just useradd and then cat mypwdfile | chpasswd -c -e, with "user_name:{ssha256}06$......I2B.QL" in mypwdfile

But I have other question now, I'll open new post for this...

Regards

Originally posted by: vbalaji11

Hi Tom,

Nice one, thanks for sharing the solution.