On Monday 14 July 2008 02:33:55 pm Hari N wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Hari N <hari2n@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ben, > > > > After the line in your script where you create a new user, you could try > > adding a line that will change the third field in /etc/shadow for that > > new user and make that value zero. Basically passwd -f command does the > > same. If this value is set to zero, it should prompt the user to change > > his password when he logs in next time. > > > > Regards, > > Hari > > I meant to send an example as well: > > cat /etc/shadow | grep username > username:ovXk64RTyiOeR:*10360* > > change it to: username:ovXk64RTyiOeR:*0 > * > See if this helps. > > Regards, > Hari* > * 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
