Hi

Any body knows how to prompt user to change password on first login in a Solaris NIS client.

Thanks
HG

I dont know but I think here you have some solution, see if it helps...
How to force user to change password at login?

Just use the command

# passwd -f <user-Name>
with -f the system wil force any login user to change his password

You can put this in a script like

#!/bin/ksh

IFS=':'

while read a b c d e f g
do
passwd -f $a

done < /tmp/passwd_file_copy

IMP: before you run this script copy the passwd file to the /tmp
with name passwd_file_copy and remove from it the users that will not change the passwd for them like root, sys ..
you can do this by the grep command

Friends,

Thanks for the links,but they didn't server my cause.

1. passwd -r nis -f <username>
-f only applies to files or nisplus repository
usage:
NIS doesn't seem to support -f option

2. Admin tool is not running in my server and even if i am able to get it,the tool will only be showing the users in /etc/passwd file and not the NIS repo which is /etc/nis/passwd(in my environment).


Please correct me if i am wrong.

HG