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  • October 2, 2017
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I'm trying to apply a configuration profile with the following items:
- Passcode
- Software Update
- Restrictions
- Login Window
- Security & Privacy
- Energy Saver

When I apply this policy though, users who do not meet the password requirement are not prompted to change their password when they logout/login or reboot.

When I create the config profile with just the passcode payload (no other config profiles are applied), I get the expected behavior, where a user with an invalid password gets prompted to change their password on reboot or login/logout.

Is it possible to have the passcode payload in the same config profile as all the other security settings, or does it need to be its own config profile?

Best answer by steviethetv

Got confused with passwords and how they operate in Macs. I added the following item in a script which is called during enrollment (which can also be triggered any other way) and I was able to get prompts to change the password at next login

user=$(/bin/ls -la /dev/console | /usr/bin/cut -d ' ' -f 4)
pwpolicy -u $user -setpolicy "newPasswordRequired=1"

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  • October 2, 2017

Got confused with passwords and how they operate in Macs. I added the following item in a script which is called during enrollment (which can also be triggered any other way) and I was able to get prompts to change the password at next login

user=$(/bin/ls -la /dev/console | /usr/bin/cut -d ' ' -f 4)
pwpolicy -u $user -setpolicy "newPasswordRequired=1"


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