topic Re: Change password in Operating System - Linux

Change password

Cheung_2 — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 04:18:13 GMT

How to force the user to change password when the next time login ? Thx.

Re: Change password

John Donovan — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:19:23 GMT

passwd -f

Must be root...

--donovan

Re: Change password

John Donovan — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:41:40 GMT

Oops! That was HP-UX... for RH Linux, chage -d0

This will have same effect as the passwd -f in HP-UX.

--donovan

Re: Change password

Cheung_2 — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 06:43:30 GMT

it is OK , thx John Donovan

Re: Change password

Robert Thorneycroft — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:47:43 GMT

You really should read the replys people write to EXACTLY the same message you posted a little while back.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x42ac3a1c04ffd61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

The commands have not changed in this time so the answers are still exactly the same.

Kind regards,

Robert Thorneycroft

Re: Change password

Robert Thorneycroft — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:05:37 GMT

Actually the question is not quite identical, just very similar. You could however always try reading the man pages, the command is the same passwd and if you just spent a minute or two reading man passwd you would know everything you will ever need to know about changing passwords on a Unix box.

Re: Change password

Cheung_2 — Thu, 02 Jan 2003 05:56:00 GMT

After I use the "passwd -d0 userid" , now , some users can't change their own password, the error is as below,
#passwd
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error ,
can suggest how to fix it? thx.

Re: Change password

John Meissner — Thu, 02 Jan 2003 14:00:56 GMT

In Red Hat there is an option in the user manager to set password exparation and other restrictions