I'm working in a school that's turning over their tech services to another company, so I need to change our admin accounts' passwords. I have the old password, and the account name is consistently admin. Is there a way I can incorporate the username, original password and new password in a single command, so that I can push out this command via ARD? I've tried using the methods outlined here but ARD's unix command window doesn't allow for additional input past the original command. Any help would be appreciated, would much rather push this out than have to do this individually.
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macOS Password change script
- Thread starter spadz93
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Hi,
Does this do it?
Hope that helps
Rob
Does this do it?
I think you'll need to do it from an account with admin privs, or sudo it.
Hope that helps
Rob
this gets my foot in the door. i still need the keychain to be unlocked via the old password, but it changed the password for the account
how would i implement that, just by doing this?...
Code:
sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/USERNAME NEWPASSi used an osascript sequence to automate it, and it's been working pretty well. entire command process below
Code:
dscl . -passwd /Users/USERNAME NEWPASS
osascript <<EOF
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "USERNAME"
keystroke tab
delay 0.5
keystroke "NEWPASS"
delay 0.5
keystroke return
delay 3.0
keystroke return
delay 0.5
keystroke "OLDPASS"
delay 0.5
keystroke return
end tell
EOFbasically this just walks it through the on-screen prompts to authenticate the keychain update