Hello Experts,

Does any one have a working shell script which extracts the user account expiry details and password expiry details and logs the info to a file ?

we can use "chage" to get the user account expiry details in linux. I want to ignore the system user IDs from passwd file and also if the account expiry is set to never, i need to ignore those ids as well.

Appreciate your prompt response...

Well the prompt response would be, what have you done and where are you stuck? We are not here to do your work for you.

@ Grail
I have already worked on a small script to run on both solaris and Linux to find the locked users. But now I need to include account expiry and passwd expiry details which will log the details in a file. In case of Linux we can use chage cmd to ge these details but im struck up in finding a way to log only the accounts which has any expiry dates set and ignore if the expiry is set to "never" and log only if the expire field has some dates in it.

Could you pls suggest me any ideas for the same ?


OS=`uname -s`

case "$OS" in

SunOS)
cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $1}' > /tmp/users
cat /tmp/users | while read line; do echo `passwd -s $line`; done|grep LK > /tmp/`hostname`.LOCKED
;;
Linux)
cat /etc/passwd | awk -F ":" '{print $1}' > /tmp/users
cat /tmp/users | while read line; do echo $line `passwd -S $line`; done|grep locked > /tmp/`hostname`.LOCKED
;;

Well firstly, the repetition of code hardly seems necessary. I wuold guess there are better system admin ways to do this, but based on the current information, I would go with something like:
It may need some tweaking and not sure what shell you will be using, but you should get the idea.

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