Forcing users to change password at login - Probably "Again"
Nigel Wade
nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
Tue Jul 15 14:25:06 UTC 2008
Ben Kevan wrote:
>
> And just to make me feel bad..
>
> chage -d 0 does what my script does.. but for some reason when you su username
> in RHEL 4 it does not look for the expiration in /etc/shadow
It does here.
# chage -d 0 testuser2
...
$ su - testuser2
Password:
You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
Changing password for testuser2
(current) UNIX password:
Maybe you have modified some configuration which breaks it. Check
/etc/pam.d/su and system-auth.
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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
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