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Re: Setting passwords to expired status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dreamwvr)
Sat Nov 7 19:49:42 1998
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 11:28:22 -0700
To: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>,
"Red Hat - List" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
From: dreamwvr <dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com>
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hi Toby,
! certain if this is what your looking for but do a :
$man usermod
this is to manually modify a user acct. hope it helps!
Regards,
dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com
At 01:03 PM 11/7/98 -0500, 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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