[SOLVED] Set user account expire date

kirukan · 03-17-2010, 11:10 PM

In Solaris

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#usermod -e 'September 18, 2010' username

Is this correct format to set expire the user account after 180 days?
Where is this information update?

evo2 · 03-18-2010, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by kirukan

Is this correct format to set expire the user account after 180 days?

No, at least not my system. The usermod man page on my machine indicates that the date should be in the form of YYYY-MM-DD. eg 2010-09-18.

What does the usermod man page say on your system?

Evo2.

sohail0399 · 03-18-2010, 12:17 AM

In solaris it may work fine

You can also check this link
http://www.bga.org/~lessem/psyc5112/...usermod.1.html

At CentOS this formate does not give any error.

kirukan · 03-18-2010, 12:25 AM

Thanks evo and sohail, I believe that i have awareness to check the man page but i post this here to confirm whether the format is correct

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-e expire Specify the future date on which a login can
no longer be used; after this date, no user
will be able to access this login. This
option is useful for creating temporary
logins. You may type the value of the argu-
ment expire (which is a date) in any format
you like (except a Julian date). For exam-
ple, you may enter 10/6/90 or October 6,
1990. A value of `` '' defeats the status of
the expired date.

kirukan · 03-18-2010, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by kirukan

Where is this information update?

Got it, In /etc/shadow

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username: password:lastchg:min:max:warn:inactive:expire:flag