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1. Forum Support Area for Unregistered Users & Account Problems
I was unable to login and so used the "Forgotten Password' process. I was sent a NEWLY-PROVIDED password and a link through which my password could be changed. The NEWLY-PROVIDED password allowed me to login.
Following the provided link I attempted to update my password to one of my own... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Rich Marton
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2. Red Hat
Hi expert,
after creating users on Redhat, i wantn to change their password with something that easy to remember and the way we use. For example
#passwd username
hello$123
it don't allow me. It may has something to do /etc/pam.d/filesXXXX there which i don't know to change to allow root... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: lamoul
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have logged into single user mode and
whenever i issue
passwd root
nothing happens the cursor simply returns back without asking new password.
what can be issue? (5 Replies)
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4. Red Hat
RHEL 5 update 4. How to force a user to change the password at his next logon.
Thanks in advance. (8 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: tjay83
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Using Solaris 9 and 10.
What we want to do is set up global rules for our password files to restrict all users, not only new ones set up with the rules but also the ones that have been sitting on the system for years.
Is there a global way to force all users to change their password every 90... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: LordJezo
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8. Red Hat
All,
I have a RedHat 9 box which I need to figure out how to get it to stay in full duplex mode after a reboot.
I have tried
ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off
I have tried to add a line to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 like this:
ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed... (4 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
yeah, I tried basically everything I can find from reading books and asking people but I haven't gotten it to work.
is there anything else that can be done. I mean, this internal modem I got is like the last thing I expected Linux not to find (2 Replies)
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