change passwd remotely in solaris 10

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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i'm trying to change passwd remotely in unix (solaris) and tried using "expect" but it is not working.

Any ideas to change the passwd remotely using a shell script?

2

set your encrypted password, and use sed to replace it

sed -s '/oldpass/newpass' /etc/shadow > /etc/shadow.new
cp -p /etc/shadow /etc/shadow.Orig
cp -p /etc/shadow.new /etc/shadow

this assumes that you set the password on a local box, and you can get the encrypted passwd from the local /etc/shadow...

Also assumes that no two users have the same password...