1. Overview – SOE Changepw
September 2016

2. What is SOE Changepw?
In a large environment, where you have more than 200 serves, changing the root passwords regularly is a not an easy task for system administrators. 
System administrators will need to login to each server and invoke the password command to change it, which is a time consuming, also lot of manual interaction required.
To overcome these problems, a shell level program has been developed to automate this process. This makes system administrator’s life easy to complete the task so fast and with minimum interaction.
Changing the passwords regularly will be easy using changepw.

3. Why do you Need changepw?
Quick solution during emergencies.
Time saver for system administrators.
Easy to change passwords.
Minimum errors
UnixSOE Enterprise Suite v10.x changepw can help you with all of these dilemma`s!

4. Changepw Advantages
Reduces man hours and manual interaction with the system
Single password for all the servers in the network
Avoids typo
Supports telnet and ssh protocols.
Speedy password change across the environment
One touch go solution
Generates the activity log report
Easy to use

5. SOE Changepw – Supported OS
Operating System
Version
Architecture
Sun
Solaris 8
Sun Sparc
Solaris 9
Solaris 10
Solaris 11
HP-UX
HP-UX11i
HP PA-RISC
HP-UX11i V2 (11.23)
HP PA-RISC/ HP Itanium
HP-UX11i V3 (11.31)
 AIX
AIX 5.3
IBM pSeries
AIX 6.1
AIX 7.1
Linux
RHEL Server 5.x
x86-64 Architecture
RHEL Server 6.x, RHEL Server7.x
RHEL Workstation 6.x, RHEL Workstation 7.x
Suse 10
Suse11.Suse 12
Cent OS 5.x(5.5 onwards)
Cent OS 6.x
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.x, Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.x
Zlinux
Zlinux 6.x, Zlinux 7.x

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