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

[Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 14 July 2008 02:33:55 pm Hari N wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Hari N <hari2n@xxxxxxxxx> 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*
> *

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 (pretty lame) .. 

Oh well.. thanks for all the help

Ben

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