How to force password change at the next login on Linux

Posted by xmodulo on Oct 5, 2015 3:17 PM EDT
Xmodulo; By Dan Nanni
Mail this story
Print this story

In multi-user Linux environment, it's a standard practice to create user accounts with some random default password. Then after a successful login, a new user can change the default password to his or her own. For security reasons, it is often recommended to "force" users to change the default password after the first login to make sure that the initial one-time password is no longer used.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Debian, Fedora, Linux, Ubuntu

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.