topic Re: Set password to expire immediately. in Operating System - Linux

Set password to expire immediately.

joseph wholey — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:51:24 GMT

RHEL AS3. Trying to add user where there password expires as soon as they log in (forcing them to change it... similar to the way it works in AIX). Can't seem to figure out how to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thx.

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:08:31 GMT

Use:

chage -d 0 username

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

Sergejs Svitnevs — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:35:57 GMT

chage -M 0

and the user will be prompted to come up with a new password at next login.

Regards

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

joseph wholey — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:36:53 GMT

When I do that, it prompts me for the new password, I enter it and I get the following message:

passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
Connection to rhel2312 closed.

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:40:49 GMT

Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set UsePrivilegeSeparation to "no". Restart/reload the service with service sshd reload.

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

joseph wholey — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:52:49 GMT

chage -d 0 does not work. I no longer get the error message, but when prompted to put in a new password, I put it in, hit enter and immediately get "bumped" off the server and the new password does not take.

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:08:48 GMT

Then you have a buggy version:

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-106.html

Update your package.

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

Vipulinux — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:57:37 GMT

Hi
What is ur version of lib-laus library?

Cheers

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

joseph wholey — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:03:11 GMT

I don't have a lib-laus library

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

Sergejs Svitnevs — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:06:09 GMT

Joseph

Try out:
chage -M 0

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

joseph wholey — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:10:42 GMT

Sergejs,

I tried that... it has 0 effect. I get the message:

cognos@rhel01233 password:
Warning: your password will expire in 0 days

However, I'm not forced to change the password. Hmmmmm!!!

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:19:26 GMT

I agree with Ivan - "chage -d 0 username" should be a answer to your question. If it doesn't work, something wrong with your installation. BTW, in your second questions we're speaking about the same linux box?

Re: Set password to expire immediately.

joseph wholey — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:51:11 GMT

Correct... I've brought to the attention of our engineering team... I think we may be back leveled on ssh. I'll report when I find out. thx for all the help.