Re: Forcing new password at login (w/o requiring an old password) (sudo related)

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Date: 08/23/05


Date: 22 Aug 2005 22:12:23 GMT

On 2005-08-22, Andrew Gideon <c182driver@gideon.org> wrote:

> The solution I envision is, upon the first login (done via the key pair,
> recall), the user is required to enter a password. This becomes the new
> password, and is ultimately used for sudo's authentication.

If you want to do your own programming it sounds easy. If you set the
login shell initially to a new program you write that can check that
the password is stored as "*NEW*" or similar then prompt for a password
and set both the password and the shell for future use.

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