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

[Marcos Aurelio Rodrigues]

Try:

#chage -d  01/01/1970 user


Marcos

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Ben Kevan <ben.kevan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing this because I need to know how to force a password to be
> changed
> at next login via a useradd script.
>
> I originally wrote my script on an openSUSE box, which had the passwd -e
> argument, however RHEL4 (haven't checked RHEL5) does not have this argument
> avaliable.
>
> In the script I have also tried:
>
> passwd -f $ACCT (the acct variable is obviously the account name), but that
> makes me change the default created password at that time and not when the
> user logs in the next time
>
> another method I tried was:
> chage -d 0 $ACCT (again this method let me su $ACCT) without having to
> change
> the password at all.. (this is not the behavior I want).
>
> So.. Is there a method I can use that allows what I want? Here is the user
> add
> portion of my script:
>
> useradd  -u $UUID -g $GID -c "$COMNT" -d $HDIR -s $USHELL $ACCT -p $pass &&
> passwd -e $ACCT
>
> The above works in SuSE but not in RHEL due to the lack of -e argument for
> useradd.
>
> All and any help is very greatful. Thank you
>
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