Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!INDYVAX.BITNET!IMHW400 From: IMHW400@INDYVAX.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: authorize question Message-ID: <8807101436.AA25770@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 7 Jul 88 19:08:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 I am not *certain* as to how LOGINOUT implements the last-chance password expiry message, but have you tried setting the password expiration time to some point in the past? I believe that if the password date has passed, but the password-expired bit is not set, LOGINOUT will give the user that message about "your password has expired, change it before you log out!" and set the expired bit. Try it and see! For now, the only way I can think of to FORCE a password change, is to run a program from SYLOGIN that checks for the expired bit and spawns a SET PASSWORD command if set. Or, if you can wait until VMS V5.0, I am told that forcing a change will be a standard option in that version. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mark H. Wood IMHW400@INDYVAX.BITNET (317)274-0749 III U U PPPP U U III Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis I U U P P U U I 799 West Michigan Street, ET 1023 I U U PPPP U U I Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA I U U P U U I [@disclaimer@] III UUU P UUU III