Setting passwords to never expire..

From: Brian Weaver <weaver_at_psd.k12.co.us>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:19:14 -0700 (MST)

This is not covered in the prpasswd man page. When running
C2, what is the correct way to set things up so there
are no password expirations or password lifetimes ?
Although it is not documented, the from playing, it seems
like you want to set u_exp and u_life to 0, either in
the /etc/auth/system/defaults file, or in a users own entry.
I came up with that because if it is not in the defaults
file, the useradd command puts u_life#0 and u_exp#0 in
a users password entry. . We are running in to problems
because we have a server that is seeing u_exp#0 and assuming
that the password is expired... Anyone know the official
DEC word what u_exp#0 is supposed to mean? Does it mean
your password is expired now, or that your password
never expires?


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Brian Weaver weaver(at)psd.k12.co.us
UNIX Guru
Poudre School District, Ft. Collins, CO.
http://www.psd.k12.co.us
Received on Thu Feb 19 1998 - 00:19:27 NZDT

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