OK, I know this seems a bit silly but I set my password aging of 30 days intervals and the password expire warning to 10 days. I just booted my PC and the 10 day warning message appeared.

Now question is, how can make a message that will say the exact date/time of the password warning message before I have to change my password again in 30 days??

So instead of having like: "Your Password will expire in 10 days" I need to be like this:

PASSWORD FOR USERACCOUNT WILL EXPIRE ON 22-MAY-2007

Hope to have an outlook on replies...Thanks.

Hi as400, I can only think of a work around using the chage command in a startup file, which is far from ideal. Assuming you are using the bash shell, add the following line to ~/.bashrc

chage -l userid | grep "Password Expires"

Disadvantage is that it appears every time you logon.
If you only want to see it the first time you logon each day, then code the following.

v_d=$(date "+%d")
[[ -f .pwdexp.$v_d ]] || { chage -l userid | grep "Password Expires" ; rm -f .pwdexp.* ; touch .pwdexp.$v_d ; }

Note the second line is one long line beginning
with [[ and ending with }
This is a bit messy, lets hope someone has a better solution.

It is better not to age the root password as changing it should be a planned and documented event and not happen on the spur of the moment because of aging. Oupa.

NEVER MIND...Its too too much complicated..

thanks for your efforts anyway.

So you consider a two line solution is far too complex ?
I'm afraid you have quite unrealistic expectations.

That said, Oupa's script should work with Linux but not with Solaris as I don't think chage has been ported to it.

The equivalent command would be "passwd -s".

Thanks jlliagre for the info on passwd, now I have learnt something new. Oupa.