[Sunhelp] script for Changing root password

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Fri 2000-01-21 (09:24), navin.soni at st.com wrote:
> hi ,
> 
> i want to change the root passwd on more than 200 nodes.is there any way
> thru scripts or something that i can achieve this.

run a for/foreach loop over all machine names, calling sed, which has to
replace root:.............: (13 dots) by root:(whateveryourencryptedpasswordis)
in /etc/passwd and/or /etc/shadow. You'd need rsh access to the machines
without giving your password anyway...
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