System Passwords

3 Feb, 2003 - GEST

Introduction - 
	You may have passwords on any of the following group machines.
	Any password that you use from outside our subnet needs to be changed periodically.
	All passwords should be 8 characters or longer, and consist of letters and words.
	NEVER CHANGE A PASSWORD OVER AN UNENCRYPTED CONNECTION.	

	Here's a list of common passwords

	Bigbro LINUX password - If you use the bigbro mailbox, you have a LINUX password.
	Bigbro SASL password - Depending on how you send mail through bigbro, you may have a SASL password 
				   -(currently sol, rparker, gruner, mark, tate, drschuet, zinter, us).
				   - This password is only used to allow you to send mail.   
	Remote LINUX password - If you can log into remote, you have one of these.
	Remote SAMBA password - If you mount Remote's hard drive on a Windows Box you may have one of these.
				    - This password is only used to map hard drives.
	BIGSIS password - 	If you use any of the hard drives on BIGSIS (eg. PEOPLE, DATA) you have a password to access them.

Bigbro LINUX Password - 

	If you are within our subnet, log onto bigbro via SSH
	If you are outside our subnet, log onto remote via SSH.  Log onto bigbro from remote via SSH
		remote> ssh username@bigbro.biophys.cornell.edu
	Use the "passwd" command,  
		username@bigbro> passwd	

Bigbro SASL Password - 
		
	Log onto bigbro via SSH (directly if inside the subnet and via remote if not).
	Use the "saslpasswd" via the line
		username@bigbro> sudo /usr/sbin/saslpasswd -u bigbro.biophys.cornell.edu username
		

Remote LINUX Password -

	Log onto remote via SSH.
	At the command line, type "passwd"
	eg.	username@remote> passwd

Remote SAMBA Password - 
	
	Log onto remote via SSH.
	At the command line type "smbpasswd"
	eg.	username@remote> smbpasswd

BIGSIS Password - 
	
	Get the BIGSIS administrator to log on to BIGSIS so you can change your password via
		<My Computer>-<Manage>-<Accounts>-<Right Click on Account name>