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Hello,
We use Snow Leopard server. I've create a number of seperate accounts in the workgroup manager, each
with it's own password. I would like to have the password from one account autmatically copied
to the other accounts. So the passwords are all the same and when the passord for the master
account is changed, the rest is updated automatically.
Anyone know how this could be done?
Xserve, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
There's no way to reverse the passwords, and I wouldn't expect to copy hashed passwords around. Well, if you should find a way to reverse the passwords, you've found a nasty security problem.
You can change all of the passwords with a script, and avoid the problem. A bash shell script with some number of dscl entries (see below) (with one command for each {targetuser} that you're targetting) and a symbol (YourNewPassword) containing the password should work:
dscl . passwd /Users/{targetuser} "$YourNewPassword"
Actually, copying hashed passwords around was what I was looking for.
All accounts reside on the same (directory) server so that shouldn't be a problem.
However, we've now figured out that we do not need seperate accounts so
I retract my question.
Thank you for taking the time to answer.
Synchronize passwords between accounts.
