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Re: Setting passwords to expired status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick L. Mantooth)
Sat Nov 7 19:12:40 1998
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 17:00:09 -0600 (CST)
From: "Rick L. Mantooth" <rickdman@cyberramp.net>
To: Toby Herring <therring@syncroflo.com>
cc: Red Hat - List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <002a01be0a78$ebe04790$640274d1@sherrif.syncroflo.com>
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Toby,
Sounds like you're looking for "chage".
I think it's part of the shadow-utils pkg. Don't have it here at home.
Rick
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Toby Herring wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way that I can manually set an individual user's
> password as expired, so that the next time they log in, they will
> immediately have to change it?
>
> I have, in the past, accidentally caused this to happen, but I can't seem to
> reproduce the effect. (The way I managed it did NOT involve manually
> editing the etc/passwd file, although I have no problem with doing a manual
> edit, if someone can explain to me what to put where.)
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Toby Herring
> IS Coordinator
> SyncroFlo, Inc.
>
>
>
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