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

[Ben Kevan]

On Monday 14 July 2008 05:05:03 pm Hari N wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Ben Kevan <ben.kevan at gmail.com> 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


Nope, I did su from my normal user account. If from root, I would expect no 
requirement for password prompt either (as it should / would just switch your 
user for you). 

Ben