[Dovecot] Forcing users to change passwords

Michael Orlitzky michael at orlitzky.com
Sun Aug 15 20:06:57 EEST 2010


On 08/15/2010 12:58 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Suppose I have users with a default password like "change-my-password"
> and I want to detect users who haven't changed their password and alert
> (nag) them about changing it. How would I do that?
>

Write a script that checks your user/password database for that 
password, and sends an email to those users.

If your passwords are hashed, you can create a new user with 
"change-my-password" as its password and check the DB to see what that 
hashes to.


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