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linux passwd question

navin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:24:26 GMT

How do i make the account non expire in suse as well as redhat - which is an existing account

thanks

Re: linux passwd question

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:29:18 GMT

Shalom,

This can be done with the passwd command.

You can make the expiration time up to a few years in the future.

This will of course cause you to fail security audits going forward.

You could also replicate system users that don't expire and change their characteristics to be login users.

All of this is however opening a huge security hole and not recommended.

sEP

Re: linux passwd question

navin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:32:11 GMT

This is for a local monitoring software account,
Thanks

Re: linux passwd question

navin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:53:20 GMT

so what is the std command to set the linux passwd non expiring

Re: linux passwd question

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:05:23 GMT

Please check the man page for chage, option -M.

Re: linux passwd question

loco_vikide — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:17:50 GMT

Here is the command you are looking for:
/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 youruserid

Cheers

Re: linux passwd question

bullz — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:40:19 GMT

try this.

passwd -x -1 username