Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 14:45, Mark Dascher wrote:
> In the man page for /etc/passwd, it says that password aging information can
> be keps in four characters following the encrypted password field (separated
> from it with a comma).  However, I have tried manually entering the aging
> info there (e.g. ,.... or ,//// or ,..//), but it has no effect. 

That is the old way of doing aging.  If you have shadow passwords, as
you probably have, aging is done in /etc/shadow, which has successive
colon-separated fields with the following meanings:

            Login name

            Encrypted password

            Days since Jan 1, 1970 that password was last changed

            Days before password may be changed

            Days after which password must be changed

            Days before password is to expire that user is warned

            Days after password expires that account is disabled

            Days since Jan 1, 1970 that account is disabled

            A reserved field



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