Oracle: Unbreak my Linux Heart

Linux has a wealth of file systems to choose from, but we are facing a number of challenges with scaling to the large storage subsystems that are becoming common in today's data centers. File systems need to scale in their ability to address and manage large storage, and also in their ability to detect, repair and tolerate errors in the data stored on disk. So Oracle is creating a new file system: btrfs. Read more...

Funny, I was searching for this last Summer but couldn't find a good way then. Now, I found instructions on Red Hat for forcing a Linux user to change his password on first login ! It's easy too and along the lines I was thinking then, but simply couldn't put together. Create the user, set a password, lock the account, use chage and unlock the account...