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Require Password Change script v2.

Posted 12-16-2008 at 06:11 PM by camh
Updated 12-16-2008 at 06:13 PM by camh (changed title to be more accurate)
Here is the second version of my required password change script. Added automated salt and password generation functionality, and removed the use of temp files.

If anyone knows how this can be optimized or improved, please comment. I'm still learning bash scripting and any help is appreciated.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

#Defines

SALT_CHARS="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
SALT_LENGTH="2"
PW_CHARS="1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!@#$%^&*()."
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Script to require password change at next login

Posted 12-02-2008 at 05:11 PM by camh
Hi all,

I wrote up this little script to force a password change to a user account on next login. I've found it helpful when doing user administration, since I've found that users generally don't change their passwords unless you force it, and linux doesn't have a 'built-in' script to do so.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

if [ "$(whoami)" != 'root' ]; then
   echo "This program must be run as root"
   exit 1;
 elif [ -z $1 ]; then
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