Re: Re: [SLE] Mass passwd change [solved]

wonderful thank a lot Francois

Francois Maisonneuve wrote:

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hello,

I'm looking for a way to change a common password for several users in one passe via a script or something else.

does anyone have an idea ?

thank for your answer

Francois

hi, try using this run this command from your console or a bash script

chpasswd < passwd.txt

where passwd.txt is a plain text file in this format user1:pass1 user2:pass2 user3:pass3 ... and so on..

take a look at man chpasswd