Script to change password on linux servers over ssh

Question

We have a number of Red Hat linux servers in our IT environment. I am being asked by my team members to write a script (preferably shell script) to change a user\'s password

Answer 1

If you have ssh, why have passwords in the first place? Push the user's public ssh key to all the servers they're authorized to use and be done with it. This also lets you easily grant and revoke access all you want.

At a previous $dayjob, where we had literally tens of thousands of servers, they had a database of which engineers were allowed on which servers, and the installation of ssh keys was an automated process. Almost NOBODY had a password on ANY machine.