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How to set a password for all users (Bash Linux)
how do I set a single password for all users in a Linux system? For example, how will I set a password, x, so that it's the password of all users in the system?
I was thinking of a for loop that ...
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"echo password | sudo -S" with exclamation mark
What I want to do is
$ echo password!p | sudo -S [command]
in a linux terminal (in my case, ubuntu20.04). If you type it as it is, the exclamation mark will refer to the history of the command line, ...
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Bash Password validator
I have stuck with my bash code. and needed some help.
I trying to write bash code that :
Length – minimum of 10 characters.
Contain both alphabet and number.
Include both the small and capital case ...
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How to add Multiple user acccount with check and SSH key using Bash script
Based on my requirement in my dev server, I have Created a Linux function that will create a dev user,(Take the user's first name and create a Linux user )
we have a devs group in our developer server,...
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bash: colored output do not stop
I'm writing a password validator and after all the tests I need to give an answer to the user if the password is valid or not.
If it is valid I will write the password in green color
If it is NOT ...
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Bash: How to find a specific char in a string
I have the assignment to write a bash script to validate password strength and one of the requirements is:
Include both the small and capital case letters.
The Password variable is the input, of ...
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Useradd script in linux without using passwd
I have to write a useradd script which adds a new user and sets for him a home directory.
#!/bin/bash
echo "Name:"
read name
echo "Password:"
read password
echo "Group:"
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How to give Users SUDO Permission from Bash Script [closed]
I have found a link (Bash Script) through which we can create Users in Linux.
Problem is all the Users created from this script does not have SUDO Permission (root Permissions). Please help, Which and ...
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How can I pass a password to bash script
I'd like to write a bash script which automates a specific process.
It starts an analyzing cms-tool with passing an identifier.
After passing an identifier that tool is asking for user password.
The ...
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bash script create users using csv
I'm trying to create different users from a csv file in bash.
This my code so far:
#create arrays usernames and password
groups=(`cut -d: -f 1 "$filein"`)
usernames=(`cut -d: -f 3 "$filein" |...
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bash generate secure password with no special characters
I have a daily bash process that requires using a new password everyday.
To avoid dealing with special characters, I generate passwords using the MD5 of the product of two $RANDOM variables:
md5sum &...
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Linux tr command not working as expected
I have this password generator:
pass () {
# Generates a random password
local size="${1:-12}"
local alphabet="$2"
</dev/urandom tr -dc "$alphabet" | head -c$size ; echo ""
}
Which ...
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Hide password and other secrets from process table (ps aux) during execution of command
Whichever command i execute using password and other secrets that appears/display while doing ps aux.
For example: i want to connect with mysql db:
/usr/bin/mysql -h hostname -u username --password=...
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sudo su with user name, password and command
I am trying to do something like
echo 'my_password' | sudo -S su -c some-user ./some_command
I have looked at
How can I apply password to sudo in one line command and execute su root?
and
run a ...
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Change linux password with Ansible playbook script when connecting as a non-root user without sudo privileges
I am trying to change password for a non-root Linux user from Ansible playbook.
To do so I tried to follow this link
Following the instruction I can successfully change the password of a non-root ...
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