April 25, 2009

How do I force users to change their passwords ?

1) Firstly, lock the account to prevent the user from using the login until the change has been made:

# usermod -L

2) Change the password expiration date to 0 to ensure the user changes the password during the next login:

# chage -d 0

3) To unlock the account after the change do the following:

# usermod -U

No comments:

Post a Comment