Hello,
I just finished adding a bunch of new users to the linux servers I administer. I add users either via command line or via linuxconf, but I can't seem to find out how to force users to change their passwords on their first login to the system.
Anyone know how to do that? My HP-UX cohorts here at work advise that that option is available to them via their SAM terminal. I don't seem to see that option in linuxconf.
Any help regarding this is extremely appreciated.
Thanks.
VJ
After you set them up, you could use the "chage" command to set their last password change back to the beginning of time... (1970-01-01). I suppose they'd have to have password expiry turned on first though... You could have their password expire in some ungodly amount of time that they'll never encounter, though.
I think I've only used linuxconf once, so I don't know if you can do it through there (I stopped using it because it broke stuff when you changed something manually, and in later linuxconf).
Hope someone else can come up with a better idea than that.