how to enforce password change at first login
Yuri Pankov
yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 05:19:47 UTC 2011
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:10:11AM +0100, Michael wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I enforce a user to change his password at first login?
>
> I want to set up ssh access for my friends but I don't want to know
> their passwords. And I don't trust they will change it just because I've
> asked to do so.
>
> I was thinking I can create account with random password and provide it
> to my users. Then the system would enforce password change at first login.
>
> Any clues, please?
Something like:
# pw usermod <username> -p -1
Anyway, see pw(8).
HTH,
Yuri
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