Forcing users to change password at login - Probably "Again"
mark
m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Mon Jul 14 23:43:58 UTC 2008
Ben Kevan wrote:
>
> I am writing this because I need to know how to force a password to be changed
> at next login via a useradd script.
>
> I originally wrote my script on an openSUSE box, which had the passwd -e
> argument, however RHEL4 (haven't checked RHEL5) does not have this argument
> avaliable.
>
> In the script I have also tried:
>
> passwd -f $ACCT (the acct variable is obviously the account name), but that
> makes me change the default created password at that time and not when the
> user logs in the next time
<snip>
The man page on passwd says
-e The user will be forced to change the password at next login.
mark
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