[ale] Force password expiration

[Pete Hardie]

Jason wrote:
> 
> I'd thought this would be an easy answer to find, but I haven't had any
> luck searching online.  I'm probably overlooking something obvious.
> 
> How can I force expiration of a user's password -- that is, require the
> user to change their password at their next login?
> 
> If there's a way to *create* a new user with such an expired password by
> default, i.e., require the user to choose a new password the first time
> they log in, that would be even better.  Thanks for any pointers.

linuxconf has a number of params that might help.  If you can test on a
dummy account, I'd try that first.

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