Logging a User Off
Pete Holsberg
pjh at mccc.uucp
Sat Sep 15 10:20:36 AEST 1990
In article <544 at fciva.FRANKLIN.COM> dag at fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer) writes:
=In article<1990Sep11.173008.274 at mccc.uucp> pjh at mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=>For reasons that are beyond the scope of this question, all new logins
=>on one of my systems (3B2.400 SVR3.1) get no initial password. I've
=>written a little script that I put into /etc/profile. It examines the
=>password field of /etc/passwd for the user logging in and runs the
=>passwd program if the password field is empty.
=>...
=>Pete
=
=Most of the responses I've seen have concentrated on bombing out a login. In
=fact, at some point, AT&T added a mechanism to do exactly what you want. My
=version of AT&T unix (Prime Sys V 3.1 r2) permits 'aging' of passwds (which
=are actually stored in the /etc/shadow file).
Unfortunately, AT&T SVR3.1.2 doesn't have shadow passwords,
and login thinks that ",.." in the password field of /etc/passwd
is a password!
=I see you are on a SV machine, so you should check the passwd(1M) entry for
=the -s (status), -l (lock), -x (expire days), -n(minimum days), and -f (force
=change at next login) options.
I am, but your SV is better than my SV! I do not have passwd(1M).
Thanks, anyway!
Pete
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