Question

Linux chapter 6

What steps can you take to determine if the client set their own password or used a default password?

Answer 1

$ passwd --status username

Display account status information. The status information consists of 7 fields. The first field is the user's login name. The second field indicates if the user account has a locked password (set their own password) (L), has no password (NP), or has a usable password or default password(P). The third field gives the date of the last password change. The next four fields are the minimum age, maximum age, warning period, and inactivity period for the password. These ages are expressed in days.

if the password is lock then we can unlock it by ,

$ passwd -u username