Re: mass user property changes

[Jeff D <blue@ev01.net>]

Dave Ewart wrote:
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> theal wrote:
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> > I need to change the shell on 25+ users from /bin/false to /bin/passwd
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> > what is the best way to do this? Can I simply do a search and replace
> > while editing /etc/passwd?
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> Technically, that's probably not the Right Way, but so long as nothing
> else is writing to /etc/passwd at the same time, it ought to be fine :-)
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> The Right Way is something like this:
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> for a in `grep '/bin/false' /etc/passwd| cut -f 1 -d ':'`; do usermod -s
> /bin/passwd $a; done
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> (completely untested)
>
> Dave.

this may be a better solution. We probably dont want to give all the 
system accounts a valid shell.

for USER in user1 user2 user3
do
usermod -s /bin/sh $USER
done