On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 07:14, Dario Lesca wrote: > It is possible to require a new password when hold password is expired > when a user do login with telnet or ssh? > > I have set the expire password via chage command, but when the password > expire the account is unavaiable and do not require a new password > > Is possible do that? or I must insert some shell script into > /etc/profile? > > Many thanks, (and sorry for my bad english) > > -- > Dario Lesca <d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx> Read the man page for chage, it describes how to set the waarning and expiration for users. For instance, I set my accounts to force a password change every 60 days and warn the user 14 days before it fails: chage -W 14 -M 60 [username] Hope this helps! -- A: Because people read from top to bottom Q: Why is top posting bad? Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
