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Sometimes on shared lab machines it may be desired to prevent users from changing passwords.  To do so use:
Sometimes on shared lab machines it may be desired to prevent users from changing passwords.  To do so use:
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Home > CentOS > CentOS 6.x > Server administration tips and tricks > Restricting user from changing password

Sometimes on shared lab machines it may be desired to prevent users from changing passwords. To do so use:

chage -m 1000 <username>

This would prevent user from changing his/her password for next 1000 days.

After this change user password once and the newly set password would be locked for given number of days.



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