Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, this was the solution I was missing, wrote a great script to get the job done.
James Chaplin Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux Base Technologies, Inc Supporting the zSeries Platform Team -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Dominic Coulombe Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:39 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: How do you . . . . setting up a user to force him to change his password? Hi, On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:31, CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) < james.chap...@associates.dhs.gov> wrote: [...] > > is there a command to modify the account without manually modifying the > /etc/shadow create date (to expire) to do this? > > Assuming the password can expire (EXPIRE_DATE != -1) : chage -d 0 username Regards, Dominic Coulombe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
