System administration

[ShivKumar_1]

Hi experts
I have a question for you regarding the user account administration. My client has a NIS environment running UNTRUSTED systems. How do I make a userid who has not logged on for say for Eg: 45 consecutive days invalid.
I know that we can do it through SAM and DEACTIVATING it , can we do the same through command line or can we automate this process using a shell script?

[Steffi Jones_1 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

a possibility is always to write a script and run it through cron.

Other than that you can go and trust your system and take advantage of the features. The only thing to adjust then is to upgrade to NIS+

Steffi Jones

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

If you build a last -1 (see man last) from your passwd file then search on your results for over 45 days then change the password for the over 45 day results - piping all results to a ref file.


HTH

Paula

[Pedro Sousa]

Hi!
I think Paula's idea is very good, but to make things clearly secure you should change your NIS to NIS+.
good luck.

[ShivKumar_1]

Hi experts
Thanks for your help, I cannot convert my network to a TRUSTED system as per the directions of the client.