passwd -e
passwd -e
Posted Aug 7, 2026 21:50 UTC (Fri) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117)In reply to: passwd -e by TomH
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features
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).