User Account Expiration 1

[goodfela26]

I'm not very familiar with Linux administration and I'm pretty stumped with this problem. It's probably a simple solution though.

I set up a password policy about 6 months ago, and aside from user errors, it has worked pretty well. I don't rememeber making any changes, but every user created since early July is getting an expiration date of 8/6/03, which shouldn't be happening. I don't know how this changed, but it did.

I ran Linuxconf and checked in there and it seems to be set correctly. I also checked useradd and I don't see it set in there either.

Can anyone tell me where it could be getting this expiration date from?

If you have any questions or need me to clarify further, please let me know.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Bob

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[tarn]

Take a look in /etc/default/
there is probably a setting in the file useradd

e.g.:
GROUP=100
HOME=/home
INACTIVE=-1
EXPIRE= <---- mine is empty yours may not be!
SHELL=/bin/bash
SKEL=/etc/skel

On Solaris its /etc/default/passwd

e.g.:
MAXWEEKS= <-- Maximum weeks a password (in shadow file) is valid
MINWEEKS=
PASSLENGTH=8

See: man usermod

Good Luck,
Laurie.