How to force users to change initial password?

[John Landkrohn]

In HP-Ux Trusted System, is there a way to set password controls so that a user will be required to change their password the first time they log in and anytime the sys admin must assign them a new password?

[Paul Sperry · Accepted solution]

passwd -f username

Force user to change password upon next login by expiring the current password.

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

Hi,

Or you can use sam or even 'modprpw -e'

Regards.

[twang]

you can change user's password after user creation using the following command to force user to change password upon first login by expiring the current password:
# passwd -f

[Steven E. Protter]

After you set up the user

passwd -f

We have built this into our program that executes the useradd command.

If your system is trusted, you can additionally disable the user id if it is not used in a certain number of business days.


see
passwd -x max

passwd -n min
to set the minumum number of days before a password can be changed again.

passwd -w warn
number of days warning before a password change will be forced.


Probably more than you wanted.

SEP

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

You can use
#passwd -f username

or you can also use the following :

Make a backup of /etc/passwd file. Edit the
passwd file and add ,.. in the passwd entry
of the users which require passwd change.

This will force the users to change the passwd
next time.

HTH,
Piyush

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Use passwd -f
And it's will work.

Caesar

[Jerome Henry]

Hi !

Do you know the 'chage' command ? I thinkit should be available on hp ux.

http://www.rt.com/man/chage.1.html

J