Change root password

biggdogg285

• January 15, 2017 23:45

I would like to change my servers root password every12 hours automatically via the crontab. Any ideas on how to accomplish that? Thank you!

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  SysSachin

  • January 16, 2017 12:02

  You can change that with using " echo "USERNAME:NEWPASSWORD" | chpasswd " but can you please let me know why you want to change that with cron and every 12 hours ?

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  24x7server

  • January 16, 2017 13:00

  Hi, It is too risky to do it like this because you will have to pass the new password somewhere to view and doing this may be a bit risk in terms of security. You may end up losing the password too. However, if you want to do something security wise, I would suggest using an SSH key and disable the password authentication, so there will be no need to have the SSH password to be changed again and again.

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  biggdogg285

  • January 16, 2017 15:32

  Thanks for your responses. I just want to randomly change the root password so that nobody can access it via WHM. We do use CSF for brute force attacks, but I would feel better if that root password wasn't stored anywhere. SSH is already locked down to a different port and will not accept password authentication. PermitRootLogin without-password PasswordAuthentication no Any idea how I can cleanly update the root password via the root cron?

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 16, 2017 16:47

  Any idea how I can cleanly update the root password via the root cron?

  
  Hello, You can find discussion and examples on this topic at the following third-party URL: Change Password every week for root user script Thank you.

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