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Forcing Global Password Changes on NetWare 6.5 Server

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28 February 2007 - 5:01am
Submitted by: aburgemeister

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Problem

A Forum reader recently asked:

"Does anyone know an easy way to force a global password change on our NetWare 6.5 server users? It's a single tree with SP5 on it."

And here's the response from Novell's Aaron Burgemeister ...

Solution

You can expire them all via LDIF. Here's what you need to do:

1. From Linux, run the following command to export/import the LDIF:

ldapsearch -h ipAddress -p 389 -D cn=admin,dc=context,dc=goes,dc=here -x
- -W objectClass=user dn > outFile.ldif

2. You'll be prompted for a password - even if you don't see the prompt, be sure to type it in.

cp outFile.ldif inFile.ldif

3. Modify the file here, adding the following lines to each DN line:

changetype: modify
add: passwordexpirationtime
passwordexpirationtime: 20070101010000Z

4. Import it back in.

ldapmodify -h ipAddress -p 389 -D cn=admin,dc=context,dc=goes,dc=here -x
- -W -f ./inFile.ldif

Looking at the users, they should all have passwords expiring at 1 a.m. (UTC) New Year's Day 2007. For modifying the LDIF you should have no problems with a decent text editor. JEdit (free, cross-platform), UltraEdit (free trial, Windows only), CoolEdit and EditPlus (free trial, Windows only) are all options. Notepad/Wordpad/word will not do what you need them to without a lot of pain and suffering, so I wouldn't even try there unless you are a macro king/queen.


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It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.



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