[K12OSN] group password

Martin Woolley sysadmin at handsworth.bham.sch.uk
Thu Jun 8 07:14:43 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 07 Jun 2006 19:10, Peter Hartmann wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to set a login password for a group of users.  I
> need to change this password often and I'm getting tired of doing it
> manually.  I've tried setting a password for the group that these
> users belong to in Webmin and setting a user in the group to 'no
> password required' but the having the group password set has no
> apparent effect on the login process and the user isn't required to
> enter a pw.   Is there a way to do this?

One method could be setup a file with a bunch of uname:passwd entries and then 
do a man chpasswd. 
-- 
Regards
Martin Woolley
ICT Support
Handsworth Grammar School
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