Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 02:38:09 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, Bill Ott <bott@grapids.lib.mi.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Aging Message-ID: <199709040138.CAA18293@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Sep 1997 21:27:52 EDT." <19970903212752.11772@mph124.rh.psu.edu>
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> On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 01:36:00AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> As far as I can tell, you can set an expiry date, such as January 1, 1998,
> but you can't say that the user's password expires every 90 days.
> I think the latter is what the original poster wanted.
>
> If chpass has this functionality, I haven't managed to find it.
You're right. I assumed that the ``change'' field did this - I
expected it to be specified as a repeating period in days after the
expire date.
Oh well.
> --
> Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Think locally, act globally.
> finger hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu for PGP public key.
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