How to change user passwords

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How to change user passwords

On my Lion server, I want to create several user accounts, mainly for use with the wiki server. I want to force them all to change their passwords at next login. I see the checkbox in Workgroup Manager for this preference, but how do I use it? It doesn't seem to work with the wiki login, because if I enable that checkbox, the user cannot login; they get an error "incorrect user name or password". These users don't have access to login to the system GUI.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), 2x2.8 Quad Xeon, 4GB DDR2, 8800 GT

Posted on Mar 1, 2012 10:44 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 2, 2012 10:51 AM in response to spookybathtub

That checkbox will prompt a password change for users logging into their network accounts. It won't work on something like a web interface, or even a Mobile Account.

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Answer 2

Mar 2, 2012 12:15 PM in response to Jonathan Melville

Thanks. Can you give me an example of "logging into their network accounts"? What are all the ways they could do this? I know SSH and AFP would work, but these users don't have access to either of those. I'm creating all these user accounts solely for wiki use.

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Answer 3

Dec 1, 2012 8:12 AM in response to spookybathtub

I'm interested in this answer too.

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