If so, you can force any user to change their password on their next login.
See the man page for the passwd command and, in particular, the -f switch. If doesn't matter whether the account is new or not.
Code:
# /etc/passwd -f <userid>
Plenty of other 'security' options for the passwd command. Man page can be viewed on this forum.
Hope that helps.
On Solaris systems, the user database is frequently contained in /etc/passwd, but the command needed to change user's passwords and to change password expiration dates is probably /bin/passwd or /usr/bin/passwd; not /etc/passwd.
These 2 Users Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
In Solaris there is no difference between /bin and /usr/bin
Code:
ls -ld /bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 7 2011 /bin -> ./usr/bin
So is HP-UX
Code:
ls -ld /bin
lr-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 8 Jul 20 2010 /bin -> /usr/bin
That depends on which Solaris release is being used. Other than the fact that this thread was posted in the Solaris forum, no operating system version has been provided.
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