Shell script for search for no password entries and lock all accounts

#!/bin/bash
# Shell script for search for no password entries and lock all accounts
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/>
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Set your email 
ADMINEMAIL="admin@somewhere.com"

### Do not change anything below ###
#LOG File
LOG="/root/nopassword.lock.log"
STATUS=0
TMPFILE="/tmp/null.mail.$$"

echo "-------------------------------------------------------" >>$LOG
echo "Host: $(hostname),  Run date: $(date)" >> $LOG
echo "-------------------------------------------------------" >>$LOG

# get all user names
USERS="$(cut -d: -f 1 /etc/passwd)"

# display message
echo "Searching for null password..."
for u in $USERS
do
  # find out if password is set or not (null password)
   passwd -S $u | grep -Ew "NP" >/dev/null
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then # if so 
     echo "$u" >> $LOG 
     passwd -l $u #lock account
     STATUS=1  #update status so that we can send an email
   fi  
done
echo "========================================================" >>$LOG 
if [ $STATUS -eq 1 ]; then
   echo "Please see $LOG file and all account with no password are locked!" >$TMPFILE
   echo "-- $(basename $0) script" >>$TMPFILE
   mail -s "Account with no password found and locked" "$ADMINEMAIL" < $TMPFILE
#   rm -f $TMPFILE
fi

#!/bin/bash

# Shell script for search for no password entries and lock all accounts

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)

# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Set your email

ADMINEMAIL="[email protected]"

### Do not change anything below ###

#LOG File

LOG="/root/nopassword.lock.log"

STATUS=0

TMPFILE="/tmp/null.mail.$$"

echo "-------------------------------------------------------" >>$LOG

echo "Host: $(hostname), Run date: $(date)" >> $LOG

echo "-------------------------------------------------------" >>$LOG

# get all user names

USERS="$(cut -d: -f 1 /etc/passwd)"

# display message

echo "Searching for null password..."

for u in $USERS

# find out if password is set or not (null password)

passwd -S $u | grep -Ew "NP" >/dev/null

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then # if so

echo "$u" >> $LOG

passwd -l $u #lock account

STATUS=1 #update status so that we can send an email

done

echo "========================================================" >>$LOG

if [ $STATUS -eq 1 ]; then

echo "Please see $LOG file and all account with no password are locked!" >$TMPFILE

echo "-- $(basename $0) script" >>$TMPFILE

mail -s "Account with no password found and locked" "$ADMINEMAIL" < $TMPFILE

# rm -f $TMPFILE

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Shell script for search for no password entries and lock all accounts

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