From: Eftychios Eftychiou (efty@UCY.AC.CY)
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 06:12:49 EDT
Colin,
Check out the "pwdadm -f NOCHECK <user>" command. This will reset the
ADMCHG flag.
Regards,
efty . . .
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Colin Jenkins wrote:
> I have 3 AIX boxes for which I synchronize passwords for a subset of the user accounts.
>
> I do this by a script which once a day copies /etc/security/passwd from the 'master' box and then slots in the password for each of the users in the subset into /etc/security/passwd on the other 2 boxes, the script also removes ADMCHG if 'flags = ADMCHG' is set.
>
> Users normally telnet to the master box and them from a menu rlogin to the other boxes which fires off the selected application.
>
> This all seems to work fine.
>
> My problem is that when I create a new user, then flags = ADMCHG is set on all boxes. This means that when this new user signs in to the 'master' box, they are prompted to change their password, when they select an application on one of the other boxes, then unless my 'password copy' script has run, then they are prompted to change their password again.
>
> Is there any way I can unset 'flags = ADMCHG' for a user ?
>
> I have been looking through the docs, but have not been able to see anything.
>
> Please excuse the lengthy preamable to a simple question, but I though it best to (try) and explain the background.
>
> Regards,
>
> Colin
>
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> Colin Jenkins
> Antalis
> UK
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