Password query

[BalaRV]

Users in the system is having 90 days of Max period of inactivity of account. I need to change the existing 90 days to 45 days. This is also needs to be set as dafault for the new users. Could you send me the command to change the inactivity to 45 days.

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
are you running trusted system ?

Please see "man usermod"
-f inactive Specifies the maximum number of days of continuous inactivity of the login before the login is declared invalid. Normal values are positive integers, while a value of -1 defeats this status.

Also see "man modprpw"

Or use SAM !


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[B.MariappaN]

Hi,
Try this,
# usermod -f 45 username
and to make it default,edit /etc/default/security and change the value for INACTIVITY_MAXDAYS

Regards,
B.MariappaN

[Reshma Malusare]

Hi BalaRV,
For changing inactivity period from 90 days to 45 days then simple way is to use
usermod command:
usermod -f
To set as default,edit /etc/default file.

Balarv,as you mentioned subject here as password query.So,do you want to go for passswd ageing also? I mean do you want to force users to change their passwords after some defined period. If yes then use following command

Passwd -n -x -w
-n--> Min.days
-x-->Max days
-W --> for warning

you can see user's passwd status by :
passwd -s user1
passwd -sa

[Reshma Malusare]

Hi BalaRV,
Can you please assign points if your query is solved.

Thanks
Reshma