topic Re: Password policy in Operating System - Linux

Password policy

nash11 — Fri, 12 May 2006 03:17:54 GMT

In my RH server , when the user password is expired , then the user is unable to change the password by themself , but only root user can change this password , if , could advise what is the problem , is it the function of "chage" ? if I want to disable it , please advise how to do it ? thx

Re: Password policy

Sergejs Svitnevs — Fri, 12 May 2006 03:55:20 GMT

I suggest do not lock the account after the password expires. This means that if logs in after the password expires, he will be propmted for a new password at login.

passwd -i-1

Regards

Re: Password policy

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 12 May 2006 05:33:12 GMT

Shalom nash

To implement this change across the system, you will want to run the command above on all users.

SEP

Re: Password policy

Asif Sharif — Fri, 12 May 2006 07:48:09 GMT

Hi Nash,

#passwd -i-1

The -i option is used to disable an account after the password has been expired for a number of days. After a user account has had an expired password for inact days, the user may no longer sign on to the account.

Regards,
Asif Sharif