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

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx> 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 (pretty lame)
> ..
>
> Oh well.. thanks for all the help
>
> Ben
>

Perhaps it did not need a password change to allow you to switch because you
did su from root login? Did you try to su to this user from another non-root
user id?

Hari
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