On Tuesday, Oct 28th 2008 at 13:51 -0000, quoth Rick Stevens:
=>Steven W. Orr wrote: =>> Under F9, I want to create an account such that the user will be required to =>> change the password on login, but I don't have control over how soon (or =>> late) the user will get to that first login. Is there a way to do it? The =>> passwd command didn't look like it had anything useful. => =>You can use "usermod -f -1 -e YYYY-MM-DD => =>The "-f -1" says that the account is never locked, but the "-e =>YYYY-MM-DD" says "the password expired on year YYYY, month MM and day =>DD". If you set that to today, e.g. => => usermod -f -1 -e 2008-10-28 fred => =>user fred will have to change his password on the next login. See =>"man usermod" for details.
Bingo. Thanks. :-)