On Tuesday 15 July 2008 07:25:06 am Nigel Wade wrote: > Ben Kevan wrote: > > 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 > > It does here. > # chage -d 0 testuser2 > ... > > $ su - testuser2 > Password: > You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced) > Changing password for testuser2 > (current) UNIX password: > > Maybe you have modified some configuration which breaks it. Check > /etc/pam.d/su and system-auth. > > -- > Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, > University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK > E-mail : nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555 Nigel, Can you try the same su as I did: su username and not su - username .. If not i'll test both later, however a bit busy right now. Thanks. Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
