RE: help with sed with solaris/linux password script

I had great replies and suggestions. Thank you again to everyone.

I know this is not the place to ask Linux questions, but the script broke the shadow file on our Linux servers. It worked great on our Solaris machines, but I need to figure out why the shadow file got zeroed and the backup was not created in /tmp.

Here is the revised script:

#!/bin/sh
echo "setting password for user"

# set the user password
PASSWD=passwordhere
/usr/bin/cp /export/home/scripts/passwords/shadow /export/home/scripts/passwords/shadow.orig
/usr/bin/sed -e "s/user:[^:]*\(.*\)/user:$PASSWD\1/" /export/home/scripts/passwords/shadow.orig > /export/home/scripts/passwords/shadow
/usr/bin/chmod 400 /export/home/scripts/passwords/shadow

Please help :)


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