Re: Forcing passwords when creating users.

From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 12:09:35 EDT


"pwdadm -c user" will suffice; that clears the ADMCHG flag, which is what
causes the user to be prompted to change their password.

Simon Green
Philip Morris ITSC Europe

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Basim Chafik [mailto:basimc@INVERA.COM]
> Sent: 25 October 2002 16:49
>
> pwdadm -c user
> pwdadm -f NOCHECK user
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Schwingel [mailto:rschwing@NDSLTD.COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:45 AM
>
> When creating a user, I want to be able to force a password. When this
> user logs in the first time, I do not want AIX to prompt them
> to change
> their password, but retain the password I set for the user. Is this
> possible?



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