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passwd -e

Posted Aug 7, 2026 21:35 UTC (Fri) by TomH (subscriber, #56149)
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features

Whilst I agreed that time based expiry is bad I do hope passwd -e isn't going away... I regularly use that after I've set/reset a password for somebody to force them to change it on next login.

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Posted Aug 7, 2026 21:50 UTC (Fri) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117) [Link]

I've been thinking about this precise use case.

Since event-based password expiry is legitimate, we must make sure to keep support for it.

This is a case of event-based password expiry (the event being in this case that you know the password).


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