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1. Hi, but if you are running a Debian based distro on your server it is necessary to add the ‘shadow’ file into your ‘/etc/’ directory if you want this to work. So, to do this execute the following command ‘pwconv’ from CLI and the ‘/etc/shadow’ file will be automatically created. After that execute the ‘chage -d 0 username’. And that it’s.

   Cheers.

2. Here are a set of scripts that work with RHEL 5.2. as Bash scripts.

   userlist.txt – Contains a set of UID’s to be created.

   useradd.sh – creates the UID’s

   pass.sh – Changes the password for the uids defined in userlist.txt

   passch.sh – sets the UID password to expire (forces the user the change password @ logon)

   Example:
   userlist.txt:
   bob
   tom
   chickmcgee

   useradd.sh:
   #!/bin/sh

   for i in `more userlist.txt`

   do

   echo ${i}
   adduser ${i
   }
   done

   pass.sh:
   #!/bin/sh

   for i in `more /root/users/userlist.txt `

   do

   echo ${i}
   echo ${i}”1234″ | passwd –stdin ${i}

   echo; echo “User ${i}.s password changed!”

   done

   passch.sh:
   #!/bin/sh

   for i in `more userlist.txt `

   do

   echo $i

   echo ${i} | chage -d 0 ${i}

   echo; echo “User $i will be forced to change password on next login!”

   done

3. The scripts should do a “cat” instead of the “more” … the more command will create a problem if there are more than page it will wait for a keypress.

4. Hi,

   Thanks for the tips and script.
   But, after executing the above commands to enforce the user to change the password upon first login, I am not able to see this comment (You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)) in PUTTY screen when I login as the respective user.

   Of course, this works when I directly login on my VM.

5. that does no longer work on debian 7!

6. Why my email always say it does not exist

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