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  • 1.  Root password push script

    Posted Wed February 17, 2010 10:04 AM

    Originally posted by: BrentW


    Greetings...

    I have a monthly task to update root passwords on 49 AIX lpars. Is there a push script I can run from an admin lpart to login to the servers and update the root pw, without having to manually log into each one and update it manually?

    Thank you :)


  • 2.  Re: Root password push script

    Posted Wed February 17, 2010 01:09 PM

    Originally posted by: MarkTaylor


    cfmupdatenode as part of CSM .. or write your own using chpasswd or copy out the relevant password ans security files as per cfmupdatenode does ..

    HTH
    Mark Taylor


  • 3.  Re: Root password push script

    Posted Thu February 18, 2010 02:23 AM

    Originally posted by: Kosala


    I can think of many ways to do this technically, but I would hesitate to try a approach like this. In case of a failure in the process, how can we recover would be a important point to consider. Specially for the root user.

    Kosala


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