Alert user password change

ust · 09-08-2003, 05:00 AM

Hi all,

We will regularly change the user password on our RH8 server , we usually send the mail to user to warm them the password will expiry , except use the mail, what is the best way on linux system to inform the user the password expiry ? thx in advance.

aizkorri · 09-08-2003, 05:09 AM

you can use the "write" command, just create some script that sends a message to the users when their password is going to expire.

write OneUser YourMessage