How create a user account in Cent OS 7 - THE USER FORCED TO CHANGE THE PASSWORD first login

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lse123new
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How create a user account in Cent OS 7 - THE USER FORCED TO CHANGE THE PASSWORD first login

Post by lse123new » 2018/07/06 16:09:20

When someone asks in an exam or interview

How create a user account in Cent OS 7 - with password temporary

but WHEN TRY LOGIN THE FIRST TIME ... THE USER FORCED TO CHANGE THE PASSWORD ????

is this happen when user account expiry [so i have to set the expiry account Date?] ??? or ...

lse123new
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Re: How create a user account in Cent OS 7 - THE USER FORCED TO CHANGE THE PASSWORD first login

Post by lse123new » 2018/07/06 16:20:15

I found it by searching

passwd -e username # immediately expires password and ask for new password next login

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Re: How create a user account in Cent OS 7 - THE USER FORCED TO CHANGE THE PASSWORD first login

Post by bhoffmann » 2018/07/06 20:05:00

Alternatively you can do a "chage -d 0 username"
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