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From: paul@unhtel.uucp (Paul S. Sawyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Logging a User Off
Summary: Use password aging feature
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.231707.8184@unhtel.uucp>
Date: 14 Sep 90 23:17:07 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.173008.274@mccc.uucp>
Organization: UNH Telecommunications and Network Services
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In article <1990Sep11.173008.274@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>For reasons that are beyond the scope of this question, all new logins
>on one of my systems (3B2.400 SVR3.1) get no initial password.  I've
>written a little script that I put into /etc/profile.  It examines the
>password field of /etc/passwd for the user logging in and runs the
>passwd program if the password field is empty.  
>
>However, I would like to be able to terminate the login process if that
>user fails to select a password.  I though I would examine the return
>code of the passwd command and then exit if it's not 0.  BUT, simply
>executing "exit" doesn't abort the login; it aborts /etc/profile!  What
>can I execute to terminate the login of a user who fails to select a
>valid password?

If you set the password field to ',..' (comma-dot-dot) login should make
the user set the password before continuing.  This sounds like what you
want, unless I'm missing something.

Good luck.
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