Hello,

I would like to create a script that will change a particular user's password at the end of the day. We use IBM AIX 5.2 OS. The user id is "bsi" ..which is a superuser that we turn on a default password for vendor. After they have logged off the system we change it back to the inhouse systems default. I would like to change it back to systems default at the end of the day once it has been changed.

Any suggestions or ideas would be most appreciated.

Thank,

Jav

You can use the OS APIs in a small program to set the password as was done in the attachment. Just rename the file to "setpwd.c".

Thank you for the program. When I compile it, I get the following message:

ld: 0706-027 The -A a flag is ignored.

Am I missing some environment variable?

Thanks,
Jav

How do you try to compile it? I compiled/linked it with the statement given in the first comment of the source code.

Yes..I also used the command that is in the source code:

cc -o setpwd setpwd.c -ls

What is the complete output you see during compile?
Have you tried another compiler like xlc_r?