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I currently have about 60 users in RedHat and our passwords do not change at all. I would like to have unix make each user change their password every 90 days. I made this change in etc/login.defs but read that this only affects newly created accounts.
Is there away to globally set each account so their password expires in 90 days?
Will passwd work with many users at once like passwd -x 90 *
or maybe pipe a list of users to it.
Also what do you mean by if users account supporst password lifetimes.
The password expiration check box is unchecked for each user in user manager.
thanks.
Tinkster idea works well.
I doubt whether the auditors would approve of 90 days, I know when we were audited they thought my 30 days was excessive. Oupa.
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