Expiring Password

[3SRT]

Hello all.

I am working on a project to write a script in Perl to set a random password on a remote host and am looking for ways to make the password expire after a set period of time. I posted on the Perl forums and they referred me to this site.

In the scipt, I simply ssh into the host and then simply run a 'passwd' for the user name I am generating a password for. I wanted to use one of the arguments for 'passwd' to make it expire after 1 day (such as 'password -x -1 [username]'), but I do not have the account priveleges, and I do not believe the script will be run on root.

Are there any other ways I can reset the password remotely after a set period of time?

OR is there a way to automatically create a one-time password that expires after login?

Thanks in advance!

[matonb]

Hi,

The command that springs to mind regarding password expiry is chage, however you need root permissions to use that one.

You might want to have a read through this to see if you can get the desired results by changing the default login settings

[3SRT]

I looked into chage, but unfortunately, I won't be able to use this either.

Another thing I might mention is that the password would need to be changed within the hour it was set.

I don't know of any commands that will allow you to set a password to expire so soon? The only things I can think of is simply having the program wait for a little bit before changing the password?

Any other ways to accomplish this?

[matonb]

Did you look at the link in my previous post?

[3SRT]

Did you look at the link in my previous post?

Yeah, i took a look at the link, but unfortuantely, I would need to expire the password within the hour it is set.

I wonder if I'll have to write some code to check time-stamps and then do an action?