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Mareeswaran_133's avatar
Mareeswaran_133
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Oct 07, 2013

Can somebody give me an advise on how to change admin/root password in an automatic NON-INTERACTIVE way?

Can somebody give me an advise on how to change admin/root password in an automatic NON-INTERACTIVE way?   like the below command... tmsh modify auth user admin password   need to find the co...
TMSH
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Brent_Blood_768
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Oct 07, 2013

I've also done this with a shell pipeline by feeding tmsh via stdin the desired password twice separated by a newline. It's a little kludgy, but it works. Basic formula would be:

 

echo -en "foo\nfoo\n" | tmsh modify auth password root

 

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Mareeswaran_133
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Oct 17, 2013
Hi Brent... Even i developed a EXPECT script, and i'm feeding through HPNA. getting an error like Details: Cannot run program "sh" (in directory "/apps/rendition/server/ext/expect"): error=12, Not enough space can you please help me to overcome this error