Forcing password change on new users...
Henry Spencer
henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 13 15:20:13 UTC 2005
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, William O'Higgins wrote:
> >> like to force them to change their password the first time that they log
> >> in. Is there an easy way to do that?
> >passwd -e username
>
> That is exactly what I needed...
One note of caution: passwords chosen in haste tend to be bad ones (or
tend to get written down, or both). I'd follow this up with an email a
few days later, encouraging them to change it again at their leisure,
and explaining good password-choice practices a bit.
Henry Spencer
henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
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