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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. AIX
Greetings All
I have a specific use case: for the deployment of a standard AIX Golden Image via mksysb, I have been requested to set the root user password to NULL with forced change on first login. Currently the admins need to remember when the Golden Image mksysb was created to calculate the... (5 Replies)
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3. Solaris
Hi Lads,
I would like place the mechanism of force reset password to user when he login to the server after his password expired. Currently, We are resetting users once in every 60 days using cron job but I am thinking is there any other way to force reset passwords after it expires? I am using... (1 Reply)
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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. Solaris
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)
Discussion started by: saurabh84g
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends.
I am new to scripting now i want to change the root password using the script with standard password.
which is the easy scripting to learn for the beginner, Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kurva
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7. 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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8. 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)
Discussion started by: tjay83
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9. 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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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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)
Discussion started by: vancouver_joe
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