RE: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H
OK. Do you know how I would switch from the /etc/shadow aging info to the
/etc/password aging info? I already ran pwunconv, but it doesn't seem to
unconv the aging information. It's not too big a deal if you don't know
how; I'm just trying to see what I have to do to make it work like the man
page says. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:olly@lfix.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 10:18 AM
To: Mark Dascher
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H
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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