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From: Joseph Stein <joes@seaport.net>
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Subject: Re: Password Aging
In-Reply-To: <199709040036.BAA16787@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from Brian Somers at "Sep 4, 97 01:36:00 am"
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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 19:26:46 -0700 (PDT)
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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.

man login.conf(5)

joe