On Wednesday 22 February 2006 13:51, Bill Tangren wrote:
> 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 $u
> > done
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Bill Tangren
> > Sent: Wed 02/22/2006 04:20 PM
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Cc:
> > Subject: recommendations for password management tool
> >
> > I'm looking for a user password management tool that will allow me to alter
> > sp_max in /etc/shadow, the number of days before a change is required in the
> > password. I have the set to 180, and I want to set it to 90 for all my users.
> > I've googled but came up empty. Webmin (which uses usermin) doesn't do this, as
> > far as I can tell.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Bill Tangren
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for the script, though I am unclear as to how this will affect non-user
> accounts, like ident, squid, apache, etc.
>
> The man page says "This will set the maximum password lifetime, in days, if
> the user's account supports password lifetimes."
>
> I was hoping for something a little more interactive than that, though, as some
> people changed their passwords recently, and some not so much. I didn't want to
> immediately cut off some users because they changed their password >90 days ago.
>
>
> Thanks again.
for name in `egrep "^[[:alnum:]]+:[[:alnum:]$]" /etc/shadow`; do chage -d `date +%Y-%m-%d` -M -90 `echo $name | awk -F : '{ print $1 }'` ; done
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