Forcing users to change password at login - Probably "Again"

Ben Kevan ben.kevan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 20:20:39 UTC 2008


On Monday 14 July 2008 01:00:59 pm Marcos Aurelio Rodrigues wrote:
> Try:
>
> #chage -d  01/01/1970 user
>
>
> Marcos
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Marcos, 

Unfortunately that did not work in my case.. When I created the user, i was 
able to su user and log in with assigned password, and was not prompted to 
change. 

Again, this is not the behavior that -e has.. 

Does anyone know exactly what the -e argument does? 




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