Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 12:53:55 +1000 From: Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@ccd.tas.gov.au> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, Bill Ott <bott@grapids.lib.mi.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Aging Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970904125355.00a3eeb8@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au>
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What about the login.conf stuff. I had a look at the sample conf file for
-current and in the standard user defaults it had this:
# standard - standard user defaults
#
standard:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
:setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,EDITOR=/usr/bin/ee:\
:path=~/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin:\
:manpath=/usr/share/man /usr/local/man:\
:nologin=/etc/nologin:\
:cputime=1h30m:\
:datasize=8M:\
:stacksize=2M:\
:memorylocked=4M:\
:memoryuse=8M:\
:filesize=8M:\
:coredumpsize=8M:\
:openfiles=24:\
:maxproc=32:\
:priority=0:\
:requirehome:\
:passwordperiod=90d:\ <--- is this a password aging field ??
:umask=002:\
:ignoretime@:\
:tc=default:
cheers,
Carey Nairn
At 01:36 4/09/97 +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
>> 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>
> <http://www.awfulhak.org>;
>Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
>
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