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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