[Koha] Bulk patron password updates

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

You can use the /usr/share/koha/bin/admin/set_password.pl script to make
your own batch script.

It needs you to know the patron id (borrowernumber) and can set whatever
you pass it with the --password parameter:

  $ koha-shell instance
k$ /usr/share/koha/bin/admin/set_password.pl --patron_id 234 --password
Apassw0rD!

if you don't pass the --password switch it will generate a random one.

Regards




El lun., 17 jun. 2019 a las 11:22, Joy Nelson (<joy at bywatersolutions.com>)
escribió:

> I agree with Joel.  From a security perspective, updating all patron
> passwords to one password is not a great idea.  Secondly, the password
> field in the database is not plain text, but is hashed.  You need to insert
> the hashed values in order to make this work.
>
> A better solution would be to reimport you patrons and set the password in
> the import file.  You could set the password to something such as lastname
> or last few digits of their cardnumber.  When imported their password would
> be set.
>
> -joy
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 9:14 AM Coehoorn, Joel <jcoehoorn at york.edu> wrote:
>
> > As someone who does IT and security for a living, the sql isn't hard to
> > write, but this idea seems incredibly, insanely, horribly awful. What are
> > you really trying to accomplish? Maybe I can suggest a safer way to do
> > this.
> >
> >
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> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 9:11 AM Dixson Rodriges <
> dixson at focuzinfotech.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > Is are any mysql query for updating the common password for all
> > > patrons.
> > >
> > > I tried with following mysql query. but didn't worked out. I think it
> > > should be in encrypted format.
> > >
> > >  update borrowers set password='test123' where cardnumber='1001';
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Dixson
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> > >
> > > Dixson Rodrigues
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