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Re: Change password at next logon?



On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> > man chage
> 
> There is no such command on my system (which means nothing).

NAME
       chage - change user password expiry information

SYNOPSIS
       chage [-m mindays] [-M maxdays] [-d lastday] [-I inactive]
             [-E expiredate] [-W warndays] user

       chage -l user

DESCRIPTION
       chage changes the number of days between password  changes
       and  the  date of the last password change.  This informa­
       tion is used by the system to determine when a  user  must
       change  her  password.  The chage command is restricted to
       the root user, except for the -l option, which may be used
       by  an unprivileged user to determine when her password or
       account is due to expire.


jim@localhost:~ $ dpkg -S chage
passwd: /usr/man/man1/chage.1.gz
passwd: /usr/bin/chage

jim@localhost:~ $ dpkg -l passwd
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  passwd          980403-0.3     Change and administer password and group dat

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