Ben Kevan wrote: > > I am writing this because I need to know how to force a password to be changed > at next login via a useradd script. > > I originally wrote my script on an openSUSE box, which had the passwd -e > argument, however RHEL4 (haven't checked RHEL5) does not have this argument > avaliable. > > In the script I have also tried: > > passwd -f $ACCT (the acct variable is obviously the account name), but that > makes me change the default created password at that time and not when the > user logs in the next time <snip> The man page on passwd says -e The user will be forced to change the password at next login. mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
