[TriLUG] Expiring passwords

[Chip Turner]

Jon Carnes <jonc at nc.rr.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 10:08, zzd wrote:
> > How do you set/unset when a particular password expires via comman line. The 
> > postgres account on my Mandrake system keeps having the password expire. Is 
> > this a global or per user setting?
> > -- 
> > Z
> 
> man 5 shadow

It is almost always a bad idea these days to directly edit
/etc/passwd, shadow, group, and gshadow.  Better is to use usermod and
groupmod.  In this case in particular, 'usermod -e 2003-12-31 foo'
will make foo's password expire on Dec 31, 2003.  Much easier and much
less error prone.

Chip

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