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Quickly add user accounts to the system and force a password change on first login

Terminal - Quickly add user accounts to the system and force a password change on first login
for name in larry moe schemp; do useradd $name; echo 'password' | passwd --stdin $name; chage -d 0 $name; done
2009-03-15 12:02:39
User: atoponce
Functions: chage echo passwd useradd
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Quickly add user accounts to the system and force a password change on first login

This command is a bit Linux specific, as --stdin doesn't exist for passwd on many Unix machines. Further, useradd is high level in most distributions and Unix derivatives except for the Debian family of distros, where adduser would be more appropriate. The last bit, with chage, will force the user to change their password on new login.

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the word 'chage'; is it right?

Comment by gadget00 51 weeks and 3 days ago

Yes- "change password aging".

Comment by atoponce 51 weeks and 3 days ago

'-e' can be passed directly to 'passwd'. This immediately expires the password making 'chage' redundant in this example.

Comment by rjc 51 weeks and 2 days ago

@rjc This is only true for passwd coming from the GNU passwd package, and as such not 100% portable. For example on HP-UX 11.11 and Solaris 10, 'passwd -e' is used to modify the login shell.

Comment by atoponce 51 weeks and 2 days ago

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