Re: force password change on first logon

[Brandin L Claar <claar@arl.psu.edu>]

I can't get chpass to accept anything in the change field, only
the expire field.  It seems to be happy with something like 
"Dec 2 2000".

What's going on?

> > That would be the excessively silly way to go about it :)
> > 
> > # chpass jeff
> > 
> > and it brings up vi with:
> > Change [month day year]:
> > Expire [month day year]:
> > 
> > Not much of a way to make it easier than that ;) If you know the date
> > format used by passwd (which I admit baffles me), then you can modify
> > adduser to set a user's password to be changed on first login.


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Brandin Claar
Network Coordinator
Penn State Applied Research Lab