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To: Bill Ott <bott@grapids.lib.mi.us>
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Subject: Re: Password Aging 
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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 01:36:00 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I've been looking high and low, and found the question often asked, but
> seldom answered:  
> Is there a nice clean (read easy) way to automate the expiration of user
> passwords every 'x' days?  I could right a script, but why re-invent the
> wheel...

Run ``chpass'' as root.

> -- 
> Bill Ott				bott@grapids.lib.mi.us

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....