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...to know) we have to change their password, and then somehow alert them to the new password so that they can login and reset their password when they get back to their PC after we've worked on it. This has been a cumbersome problem for us for a while, and to solve it, I finally wrote tmp-admin-pwreset.pl. What it does is simple: you pass it a list of usernames and a temporary password. It will reset the password of all the supplied users (Samba and UNIX) to the temporary password, but first will backup the current password *hashes* for each of the users to a file, so that they can be reset to th...