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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:41:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Tim Stoddard <tims@dcs.state.ar.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Password Question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970724093938.1332Q-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.970723132238.5771B-100000@dcs.state.ar.us>

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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Tim Stoddard wrote:

> Is there a utility that when a user logs in for the first time it forces a
> password change.  

Yes, you can use the password expiry feature to do this.  See passwd(5).
Set the expiration to 1 second.  This value isn't propagated after they
change the password.  

You can modify adduser to automatically stick this in pretty easily, as
long as you can do Perl. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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