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

[Nigel Wade <nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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