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How to force a password change on next login

How to force a password change on next login

Posted Aug 10, 2026 15:28 UTC (Mon) by LionsPhil (subscriber, #121073)
In reply to: How to force a password change on next login by alx.manpages
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features

Does that go for the account expiry date as well? (I see downthread that you're busy enjoying ripping out date-handling code in general.)

Particularly pointing to passwd(1) --lock and its suggestion of usermod(8) --expiredate as the way to actually disable a user account in a world of non-password login methods like SSH keys.

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How to force a password change on next login

Posted Aug 10, 2026 16:44 UTC (Mon) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117) [Link]

The date of account expiry is documented in shadow(5) as the 8th field.

That field is not deprecated.

I wish we could get rid of all date-handling code, but a little bit remains. Certainly simpler than it once was, though.


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