password aging - email warning

[Lucy2009_1]

We have some accounts turned on password aging and set 1 week warning period. Is there any way to send email to notify the user that the password is going to expire?

[Johnson Punniyalingam · Accepted solution]

yes ,

is your system trusted system ?

you need to write a script by using below command

/usr/lbin/getprpw -l

and mailx to send email notification to the user that password going to expire,

[Lucy2009_1]

The system is not trusted. Just some accounts have password aging. I'll check that command.

Thanks!

[balaji_vvv]

Anyone is having script to do this on a trusted system, just send email to user before 7 days of expiry?

[Lucy2009_1]

Since the system is not trusted, the command did not go anywhere.
> getprpw -l XYZ
System is not trusted.

Anything else to try?

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

for System is not trusted

man passwd,


To find out password dates use passwd -a -s, it gives you the date the password is changed and also it gives you the time

write script to check in reference with /etc/security file and send email notification to the users

[Viktor Balogh]

here is small snippet:

# for user in $(pwget | cut -d: -f1)
do
[ $(passwd -s $user | awk '{print $NF}') \
-lt '10' ] &&
mailx -s 'change password!' $user
done

WARNING: I didn't test it, use it for your own responsibility!

[Lucy2009_1]

Thanks everyone. I got it.