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Those users log in via various means or protocols, such as SSH, FTP and HTTP. In order to successfully log in, those users have to have - passwords.

You have to deal with users who create overly simple passwords, forget their passwords or forget to change those passwords with any regularity.

If that's the case, you need to know how to manage user passwords.

How? What are the tools you need to use to make this task easier? And how can you create policies to ensure passwords are strong and regularly changed?

This guide, written by Jack Wallen for TechRepublic Premium, walks users through a few of these processes, so they can better manage user passwords on Linux servers.

EXPIRING PASSWORDS WITH THE CHAGE COMMAND. Let's say you want to expire a user's password at some point in the future.

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