NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/sys/hp/15386

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From: [e-mail] (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Subject: Re: creating accounts in the background
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:34:51 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Gary Samek) writes:
>Greetings,
>
>  We have a HP 720.  Being that this is a college environment and we create
>and delete many student accounts every semester, I was wondering if anyone
>knows of a nice utility that would allow for me to create a group of accounts
>with a similar prefix appended by a counter for usernames and generate
>random passwords for HP-UX.
>
>If that does not exist, is there a random password generator and encrypt'er
>available that I may write a script with this utility gen'ing the passwords.

I use a script to add new accounts, which I can either mail to you, or
post here if there is enough interest; my version sets the same password
for each new account, but I then sit down with the user and make them
login and change it. I also have 'makepasswd' which will generate
reasonable passwords (but it needs modification to insert digits to make
HP-UX happy, though root can set any password they like), and
'Cryptpasswd' which will encrypt a plain text password with a specified
salt, so putting all this together would do it for you. I can mail these
programs or post them (they both came from USENET in the first place).
--
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