check for password expiration - Page 2

db2girl · #16 (**permalink**) 11-30-12, 19:59

Can I add it to db2's crontab (and set SUID/GUID on the script)? I'm not sure if SA team would let me add it to root's crontab.

kitaman · #17 (**permalink**) 11-30-12, 21:15

No, if you cannot run it from root, then you must copy chpasswd to /home/db2/bin, change its permissions (see post #7), and make sure that only db2 can get to it. If you just change permissions on the original, then you will have a difficult time preventing its unauthorized use.

db2girl · #18 (**permalink**) 12-01-12, 08:06

I'll give it a try. Thank you!

kitaman · #19 (**permalink**) 12-01-12, 16:24

Post 15 was developed on SCO.
On Linux.

Code:

#!/bin/bash                                
i=1                                        
pw1=""                                     
pw2=""                                     
while [ $i -le 8 ]                         
do                                         
#       p=`random 74`                      
        p=$[ ( $RANDOM % 74 )  + 1 ]       
        p=`expr $p + 48`                   
        if [ $p -eq 92 -o $p -eq 96 ]      
        then                               
                p=`expr $p + 1`            
        fi                                 
        pw1=`echo -e "obase = 8\n$p\n"|bc` 
        pw1=`echo -e "\0$pw1\c"`           
        pw2=$pw2$pw1                       
        i=`expr $i + 1`                    
done                                       
#echo $pw2                                  
echo $pw2 >>/home/db2/currentpassword     
echo db2:$pw2 |chpasswd

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