https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/password-change/m-p/2836699#M2821 How to force a group of users( eg. ACC, EDP, Engineering dept) to change password? thx.<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /> Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:03:47 GMT O'lnes 2002-10-31T11:03:47Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/password-change/m-p/2836699#M2821 How to force a group of users( eg. ACC, EDP, Engineering dept) to change password? thx.<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /> Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:03:47 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/password-change/m-p/2836699#M2821 O'lnes 2002-10-31T11:03:47Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/password-change/m-p/2836700#M2822 See the '-f' option of the passwd command.<BR />You might have to write a script that does a<BR />grep of the passwd file (or ypcat passwd | grep xxx) to find the correct set of users, use 'cut -d: -f1' to remove everything but the user name part of the resulting entries, and run 'passwd -f' on each entry in that list.<BR /><BR />Exactly how this would work on your system might depend in part on things like whether you have a trusted mode configuration or not, whether you're running LDAP, NIS, NIS+ or not, etc.<BR /> Fri, 01 Nov 2002 18:26:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/password-change/m-p/2836700#M2822 doug hosking 2002-11-01T18:26:33Z