Hello,
I just finished adding a bunch of new users to the linux servers I administer. I add users either via command line or via linuxconf, but I can't seem to find out how to force users to change their passwords on their first login to the system.
Anyone know how to do that? My HP-UX... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I notice in my Sun Solaris 8 sparc worstation, I am able to change my password to same existing password.
That is, right now my password is abc, and I change it with "passwd" command and change it abc again. It will accept.
How can I make it such that it will not accept same password?... (3 Replies)
We have quite a few threads about this subject. I have collected some of them and arranged them by the OS which is primarily discussed in the thread. That is because the exact procedure depends on the OS involved. What's more, since you often need to interact with the boot process, the... (0 Replies)
Hi, yesterday, I changed root's shell in /etc/passwd, cause a mistake then I can not log in root account (can't find correct shell). I attempted to log in single-mode, however, it prompted for single-mode's password then I type root's password but still can not log in.
I'm using AIX 5L version 5.2... (2 Replies)
hi
How can I force user to change of password by modifying the password expiry and the grace period so that the
user has at least 1 week to login and change the password...... (3 Replies)
hi
by modifying /etc/shadow
how can I Force a change of password so that user has at least 1 week to login?
I did it by using:
echo "enter username to force password change"
read user;
chage -M 7 $user;
How can I do it by modifying /etc/shadow?? (6 Replies)
Hello All,
How to force user to change his login passwd on his first login in solaris 10 ?
while adding user do we need to set the password in theis case?? (7 Replies)
Hi all,
Im having trouble setting up an FTP server and forcing SSL. At the moment i can connect to the server externally using normal FTP but when i try FTP with SSL i get
STATUS:> Connected. Exchanging encryption keys...
ERROR:> SSL: Error in negotiating... (5 Replies)
i do not have root on a solairs 10 server , however i do have the root role, i was wondering if I can change the root password as a a role with the passwd command? I have not tried yet.
and do i have to use the # chgkey -p afterwards?
i need to patch is why i am asking.
thanks (1 Reply)
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dialups
dialups(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual dialups(4)NAME
dialups, d_passwd - dialup security control
DESCRIPTION
and are used to control the dialup security feature of (see login(1)). If is present, the first word on each line is compared with the
name of the line upon which the login is being performed (including the as returned by (see ttyname(3C)). If the login is occurring on a
line found in dialup security is invoked. Anything after a space or tab is ignored.
When dialup security is invoked, requests an additional password, and checks it against that found in The command name found in the ``pro-
gram to use as shell'' field of is used to select the password to be used. Each entry in consists of three fields, separated by colons.
The first is the command name, matching an entry in The second is the encrypted password to be used for dialup security for those users
logging in to use that program. The third is commentary, but the second colon is required to delimit the end of the password. A null
password is designated with two adjacent colons. The entry for is used if no other entry matches the command name taken from
FILES
dial-in tty lines
passwords
SEE ALSO login(1), passwd(4).
dialups(4)