topic Re: Expiry date for user's password in Operating System - Linux

Expiry date for user's password

M.M. Oee — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 04:06:30 GMT

How to set the date period (e.g. 90 days) to force the users to change their password?

Regards

Re: Expiry date for user's password

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 05:54:00 GMT

as root

passwd -x 90 username

That will do it

As far as I know you'll need to do it one user at a time.

You an also do it as an option to the useradd command.

SEP

Re: Expiry date for user's password

U.SivaKumar_2 — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 05:55:42 GMT

Hi,

The -M option of the chage command specifies the maximum number of days the password is valid. So, for instance, if you want a user's password to expire in 90 days, type the following command:

chage -M 90 username

regards,

U.SivaKumar

Re: Expiry date for user's password

Paul Sperry — Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:52:22 GMT

passwd -x max username

Determine the maximum number of days, max, a password
can remain unchanged. The user must enter another
password after that number of days has transpired,
known as the password expiration time.