SSH password script using root

Question

Hello I am trying to work on a SSH password script.

The user I am using is root because this is for a cluster of servers and the root user has password less entry to all of the other servers in the cluster.

What I have here works as on one server

echo "Welcome3 | passwd user1 --stdin"

This is the script i'm trying to user on the cluster.

export HOSTS="server1.server.com
server2.server.com
server3.server.com
server4.server.com
server5.server.com"

for i in $HOSTS
do
echo $i
ssh $i echo Welcome3 | passwd user1 --stdin
done

I get the message

"servername changing password for user user1 passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully"

But when I go to login to the other servers with the new password it dose not seem to take.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You changed the password of user1 on your local machine.

Try this:

ssh $i 'echo Welcome3 | passwd user1 --stdin'