Please could someone help with the following problem I have.

We have recently moved to Linux to deploy our software. We use telnet connection to the server and would then normally exec a menu to the users, so they do not get to the bash prompt.

The problem I have is that when we switch on password ageing the user does not see the information of the expiring password before executing the menu. This works with other operating systems we use - for example HPUX.

Thanks in advance.

First of all, I recommend using ssh instead of telnet if possible; telnet doesn't encrypt the data sent, so any passwords used are sent in clear text visible for anyone who gets to read the traffic (which is not difficult). It's your decicion, of course, but using ssh would be more secure - and not more difficult.

The solution depends on how you do the thing. How do you display the menu? What sort of "menu" is it? Maybe you could use a script to start it (or if it is a script already, modify it), and use something like sleep to make the menu wait a moment before filling the screen, so that the user could see a message of password expiration or something.

Its just a unix script menu

Thanks very much - sleep does the job