Re: mass user property changes
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:08:03PM -0700, Jeff D wrote:
> Dave Ewart wrote:
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> >theal wrote:
> >
> >>I need to change the shell on 25+ users from /bin/false to /bin/passwd
> >>
> >>what is the best way to do this? Can I simply do a search and replace
> >>while editing /etc/passwd?
> >
> >
> >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 :-)
> >
> >The Right Way is something like this:
> >
> >for a in `grep '/bin/false' /etc/passwd| cut -f 1 -d ':'`; do usermod -s
> >/bin/passwd $a; done
> >
> >(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
Wouldn't
#vi /etc/passwd
/false
cepasswd <Esc> n.n.n.n.n.... (looking out for system accounts)
(as I think the OP was intending to do) be just as quick?
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David Jardine
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