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To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, Bill Ott <bott@grapids.lib.mi.us>
From: Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Password Aging 
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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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