Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:15:27 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: periodic passwd change? Message-ID: <20061212121526.GA40735@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4579D1B2.1060202@locolomo.org> References: <20061207142439.GA20896@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <4579D1B2.1060202@locolomo.org>
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:57:22PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I can't see how to prescribe periodic passwd change, > >only how to set expiry time. At the moment I put the following > >line in the root's crontab: > > > >2 2 2 * * pw usermod shterenl -p "`date '+\%d-\%m-\%Y'`" > > > >This makes a user's passwd expire once a month. > > > >Is there a better way to force users change their passwds periodically? > > You can set it in login.conf, when the password is updated the next > expire is automatically set. I checked login.conf. It seems that passwordtime option has no effect. I did a brief search and found many postings describing the same problem: many options from login.conf have no effect. Perhaps these are the "RESERVED CAPABILITIES' as they are called in the man page. Some people list a patch that supposedly fixes the problem, but I'm not sure if it applies to 6.2-prerelease thatI'm running. thanks anton
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