Re: expire

["Marcel Hicking" <hicking@du.gtn.com>]

Read the fine maual:

#man passwd

[...]
Password expiry information
   The password aging information may be changed by the super
   user  with  the -x, -n, -w, and -i options.  The -x option
   is used to set the  maximum  number  of  days  a  password
   remains  valid.   After max days, the password is required
   to be changed.  The -n option is used to set  the  minimum
   number of days before a password may be changed.  The user
   will not be permitted to change  the  password  until  min
   days  have elapsed.  The -w option is used to set the num­
   ber of days of warning the user will receive before  their
   password will expire.  The warning occurs warn days before
   the expiration, telling the user how many days  until  the
   password  is set to expire.  The -i option is used to dis­
   able an account after the password has been expired for  a
   number  of  days.  After a user account has had an expired
   password for inact days, the user may no longer sign on to
   the account.
[...]


Simon Gray <simon@quantum.co.uk> 22 May 2001, at 14:44:

> Hi all,
>
> just woundering. Is there anyway to stop user accounts from expiring?
>
> Because i've got a few email accounts on a machine. Using
> sendmail/qpop. That all works fine. But for some reason some of the
> accounts seem to expire every week or so... Yet others on the same
> machine don't....
>
> any ideas how i can stop these from expiring?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Simon
>