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Q: Using ARD to update admin password on client machines (all unique passwords)

Hi All,

 

We have about 150 machines in our office and I've recently been advised to update each admin account password to a non-unique password. At the moment, each machine has a different password for the admin account.

 

I understand that if all the passwords were the same, I could use this ARD UNIX command:

 

dscl . /Users/<adminshortname> <oldpassword> <newpassword>

 

However, as they are all different, is there any suggestions on how to update in bulk? Ideally it would be good to send something like:

 

dscl . /Users/<adminshortname> <newpassword>

 

...and then be prompted for each individual machines old password.

 

I also ran into keychain issues when updating via terminal/UNIX.

 

Any help is good help, thank you.

Posted on Jul 22, 2016 1:28 AM