It's a pain if you have to perform a regular task on several systems, such as syncronyse passwords.
By using FTP (in this case on an NT command prompt), one can create scripts 'on the fly' and reduce the overhead.
These routines presume the password is already the same on all specified systems.
*** PLEASE NOTE *** even though these routines clean up after themselves,
it may still be possible to recover the deleted files after use.
USE;
GROUP_P user_id current_password new_password
By changing the line,
echo quote rcmd chgusrprf %2 password(%4)>>script1.scr
other commands can be run, i.e. STRSBS SBS(QINTER) ? however, remember these commands are effectively submitted to a btch stream, so don't try accessing anything in library QTEMP!
The user should have command line authority, and authority to the OS/400 commands used. The FTP servers should be running.
It goes without saying that you should regularly review your user's authority and access *especially* if you have any of the more common daemons running.
Code
GROUP_P.BAT source code (modify system1 system 2 etc for valid hosts) @echo off
call password.bat system1 %1 %2 %3
call password.bat system2 %1 %2 %3
echo passwords changed for user %1
PASSWORD.BAT source
@echo off
if exist script1.scr del script1.scr>nul
if exist temp.bat del temp.bat>nul
echo open %1>script1.scr
echo %2>>script1.scr
echo %3>>script1.scr
echo quote rcmd chgusrprf %2 password(%4)>>script1.scr
echo quit>>script1.scr
echo ftp -s:script1.scr>temp.bat
echo del script1.scr>>temp.bat
temp.bat
del script1.scr>nul
echo password changed for system %1 user %2
