[98471] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Setting passwords to expired status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Whipple)
Mon Nov 9 09:21:29 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 14:20:59 +0000
From: Fred Whipple <fwwhippl@mindless.com>
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All,
What exactly does the 'usermod' command change to keep track of account
expirations, etc.? As in, does it add something to a particular file?
I can't think of a good place to search for more info as the man page is
rather brief.
Is this a shadow password only utility? And... how does one use shadow
passwords anyway? :-) Is there a redhat-list FAQ full of answers to
questions that I know I've seen fly by in the past couple years but
didn't save? =)
Thanks for any info.
-Fred
dreamwvr wrote:
>
> 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.)
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