topic Re: Password expiring in Operating System - Linux

Password expiring

kunjuttan — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:47:22 GMT

Hi All,

I am facing one issue in Linux(RHEL-5) server. One specific user password is getting expired frequently. Everything is fine in shadow file.

Please help.

Chhaya_Z — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:23:43 GMT

Hi,

How does the user login? is it using SSH or sftp etc?

Also check Password Expires in
# chage -l <username>

kunjuttan — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:10:32 GMT

user login via ssh.

wht is that command for??

Tim Nelson — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:52:26 GMT

man chage

chage lists and changes the uid's password expiration settings.

gtk321 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:46:54 GMT

Hi,

Is this happening for both console logins and ssh? or is it happening only for ssh logins?

As root, run the command

chage -l <username>

and see what are the current account and password expiration values. If you suspect anything then change

accordingly using

chage <username>

hope this helps you

regards

Krishna