From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 20 07:55:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16972 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:55:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA16943 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:54:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19002; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:49:20 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:49:19 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Charlie ROOT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Expiration of Accounts and Passwords Message-ID: <19981120174919.D20475@ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Charlie ROOT , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.17i In-Reply-To: ; from Charlie ROOT on Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 08:18:09AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 08:18:09AM -0700, Charlie ROOT wrote: > > Hello I have three questions... > > One...I would like to expire passwords on our freebsd boxes every 90 > days, is there a utility that will allow me to set everyones passwords to > expired without haveing to chpass every account on my system? > > Two...Same question as above except I would like to expire accounts that > have been inactive for more then 90-180 days. Is there a way to append > the field in passwd without haveing to chpass every account? Copy /etc/master.passwd to a safe location, edit it as you need, then read the manpage for pwd_mkdb(8). > Three...how do I resubscribe/subscribe to the freebsd-questions list > again. Send message to with the word "help" in the body. Instructions will be sent to you. Or just cut, paste and execute the following: echo "subscribe freebsd-questions" | mail majordomo@freebsd.org Best regards, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message