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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: no password
Date: 20 Aug 1994 09:05:11 GMT
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: Timothy J Kniveton's message of Thu, 18 Aug 1994 14:55:55 PST
In article <0iIyPve00WB58xq0IR@andrew.cmu.edu>
Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> writes:
* when i create an account, if the person isn't physically there, i
* leave their pw blank for them to set. this obviously creates some
* security problems, especially if they leave it blank. does anyone
* have a good idea how to force a user to set its password? possibly
* using the password expiration field in the passwd file..
You can just create it with a "*", and then immediately set it using
"passwd username" (as root) to something totally inconvenient to type
(like "$%QCv',=(*&"). I'm sure that person will change it the first
time she logs in. :)
Satoshi
P.S. If you mean there is no way for you to communicate them their
initial password, sorry.