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

[Hari N]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Hari N <hari2n at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ben,
>
> After the line in your script where you create a new user, you could try
> adding a line that will change the third field in /etc/shadow for that new
> user and make that value zero. Basically passwd -f command does the same. If
> this value is set to zero, it should prompt the user to change his password
> when he logs in next time.
>
> Regards,
> Hari



I meant to send an example as well:

cat /etc/shadow | grep username
username:ovXk64RTyiOeR:*10360*

change it to: username:ovXk64RTyiOeR:*0
*
See if this helps.

Regards,
Hari*
*