CentOS - Oct 2010 - Password Expiry

Hello,

Is there any command / option available on CentOS to expire a user's
password immediately ? I remember using  "passwd -e" on some other
distribution but the -e option does not seem to be present on CentOS
5.x.

Thanks,

Manish

2010/10/18 Manish Kathuria <mkathuria at
tuxtechnologies.co.in>:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any command / option available on CentOS to expire a user's
> password immediately ? I remember using ?"passwd -e" on some
other
> distribution but the -e option does not seem to be present on CentOS
> 5.x.
See: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_chage.htm

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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:42:59PM +0530, Manish Kathuria
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there any command / option available on CentOS to expire a user's
> password immediately ? I remember using  "passwd -e" on some
other
> distribution but the -e option does not seem to be present on CentOS
> 5.x.
passwd -l (that's a lower case L) as in lock will immediately leave the
account available.

If you want to make them change their password right now

chage -d 0 username 

Which gives a message


Password: 
You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
Changing password for test2
(current) UNIX password: 


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