password expiration

[Carlo Florendo]

Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:

>Carlo Florendo wrote:
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>>In UNIX/Linux, the 5th field for each entry for the shadow password
>>file has a field that indicates the number of days before a password
>>*must* be changed.
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>>Does this mean that if I set the entry to 1 (one), will I have to
>>change the password every time before 1 day elapses?  Or, does it
>>mean that I have to change it for the first time?
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>What does this have to do with hippos?
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>OK, seriously. Although the /etc/shadow format isn't necessarily the
>same on all Unix systems, generally that would apply every time you
>change the password. You'd have to change it every day. Unless there
>is some magic to setting that to "1" that I don't know about.
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>gsw
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I tested a system and it was exactly as you described!  Thanks a lot.

Best Regards,

Carlo

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