Is it possible via a bash script working from one Red Hat Linux box to change the passwords on another 50 boxes?

Is there an easy way of changing multiple Red Hat Machines root password without my having to log into every single one of them.

Thats some task to do. Maybe this could work.

Make it possible that you login via ssh without having to promt a pasword. check out

http://wiki.met.tamu.edu/index.php?t...ing_a_Password

to do this.

then change the password on main machine and copy line from /etc/shadow to file.

make bash script that replaces root line from /etc/shadow with the line you saved to file. (use sed for that)

via scp copy bash and file with new password to box and

*somehow execute bash file*

last two steps with a bash script.

Dunno if its possible to remote execute a bash script, but should be. The other thing is if the hash of the shadow file will the interperted the same on all machines.

But it's worth a try