[FreeNX-kNX] Changing password

[Alfred Rapozo]

That's not a bad idea. I don't give users the whole destkop, only one
application. So I could configure the client to run the script and the
script will then run the application when its done.
Has someone done something like this that can give me a little heads up?

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Chris Roberts <cjr at tridentgarages.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Alfred Rapozo wrote:
>> How do you guys manage changing passwords for the users?
>> If a users password expires it just exits with an error when it
>> connects, it doesn't give them the option to change it.
>> What are my options?
>
> We don't use NX exclusively, so it has not caused us a problem yet!
>
> In KDE I would be tempted to write a simple bash or perl script that
> interrogates the password status ("passwd -S"), then uses kdialog to warn the
> user that their password will expire in X days, "change password now? [Yes]
> [No]".  If the user pressed Yes it would run:
>
>  kcmshell kcm_useraccount
>
> Chris Roberts.
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