Comments on: Linux: Force Users To Change Their Passwords Upon First Login

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:39:07 +0000

RRRolle, there is nothing wrong with the spelling. ‘chage’ is correct. You are changing the aging attributes of the account — when the password expires, how long between required password changes, etc. chage -l will give this information:

# chage -l nagios
Last password change : Sep 17, 2010
Password expires : Nov 16, 2010
Password inactive : never
Account expires : never
Minimum number of days between password change : 1
Maximum number of days between password change : 60
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7

By: RRRolle

RRRolle — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:31:47 +0000

Task: Use chage command to force users to chage their password upon first login

Use the following syntax:
chage -d 0 {user-name}
# chage -d 0 tom

Hello out there! Must be something wrong with the spelling (chage)??

By: Freddy

Freddy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:12:29 +0000

Great …….. Very Useful

By: Grobsch

Grobsch — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:36:37 +0000

Excellent tip for livecds… Thanks!!

By: Cyril

Cyril — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:47:41 +0000

Very useful tip!
I’ll use it.