topic Re: Mail in Operating System - Linux

Mail

Elizangela Fernandes — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:26:42 GMT

Hi,

I need to know how can I send a mail when the user password expire?

The password expires after 60 days and I change the password before this period.

Thank`s

Elizangela

Re: Mail

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:50:12 GMT

mail via port 25, smtp, does not by default require a login.

If your sendmail daemon is running and the server is configured to relay mail from the source IP address (the pc or server sending the mail) then the mail will go out regardless of whether the user account is expired or not.

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Re: Mail

Elizangela Fernandes — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:12:22 GMT

Sorry,

I will explain better.

I have many users that expires after 90 days.

My /etc/shadow:

Fernae1::12835:0:90:3:0::

so, I need to change the Fernae1`s password before exceed the 90 days, becouse if password expires the user couldn`t logon in the application.

My /var/log/messages

Account Fernae1 was disabled

My question is:

How can I configure my Operation System for alert me that the password is near to expire?

Thank`s

Re: Mail

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:07:33 GMT

You need to run a report parsing the data in the /etc/shadow.

You can use awk for field separation. awk -F:

I'm staring at the /etc/shadow file and not seeing how to turn that data into something usable.

perl -MPOSIX -e 'print POSIX::strftime("%m%d%Y", localtime(time - 86400));'

This is how its done in HP-UX.

Untested, but it may provide some insight. Also, this may have been done by others, so consider doing a search of itrc forums.

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