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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:41:10PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> Is there any way to get password aging to work properly on FreeBSD?  It
> seems every time I figure out how to work around one limitation, I come
> across another one.

man pw(8)

see options -e and -p

for example "pw usermod luser -p 01072003", so the user has to
change his pw on 01-07-2003.

if this is not working for you, please post the error message.

hth,
toni
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