Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote:
Use the native passwd tool... according to the man page:
-x This will set the maximum password lifetime, in days, if the
user’s account supports password lifetimes. Available to root
only.
for u in `cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd`; do
passwd -x 90 $u
done
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Bill Tangren
Sent: Wed 02/22/2006 04:20 PM
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Subject: recommendations for password management tool
I'm looking for a user password management tool that will allow me to alter
sp_max in /etc/shadow, the number of days before a change is required in the
password. I have the set to 180, and I want to set it to 90 for all my users.
I've googled but came up empty. Webmin (which uses usermin) doesn't do this, as
far as I can tell.
Thanks!
Bill Tangren
Thanks for the script, though I am unclear as to how this will affect non-user
accounts, like ident, squid, apache, etc.
The man page says "This will set the maximum password lifetime, in days, if
the user's account supports password lifetimes."
I was hoping for something a little more interactive than that, though, as some
people changed their passwords recently, and some not so much. I didn't want to
immediately cut off some users because they changed their password >90 days ago.
Thanks again.
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