Hello,
Is there any command / option available on CentOS to expire a user's password immediately ? I remember using "passwd -e" on some other distribution but the -e option does not seem to be present on CentOS 5.x.
Thanks,
Manish
2010/10/18 Manish Kathuria mkathuria@tuxtechnologies.co.in:
Hello,
Is there any command / option available on CentOS to expire a user's password immediately ? I remember using "passwd -e" on some other distribution but the -e option does not seem to be present on CentOS 5.x.
See: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_chage.htm
-- Eero
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:42:59PM +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote:
Hello,
Is there any command / option available on CentOS to expire a user's password immediately ? I remember using "passwd -e" on some other distribution but the -e option does not seem to be present on CentOS 5.x.
passwd -l (that's a lower case L) as in lock will immediately leave the account available.
If you want to make them change their password right now
chage -d 0 username
Which gives a message
Password: You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced) Changing password for test2 (current) UNIX password:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:42:59PM +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote:
Is there any command / option available on CentOS to expire a user's password immediately ? I remember using "passwd -e" on some other distribution but the -e option does not seem to be present on CentOS 5.x.
If you want to make them change their password right now
chage -d 0 username
Which gives a message
Password: You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced) Changing password for test2 (current) UNIX password:
-- Scott Robbins
Thanks, this is precisely what I was looking for. Thank you Eero too.
-- Manish
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