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Setting 'Password Inactive' field to 1 after setting maximum passwd age ?

I set a user, 'testus1' to have his password change every 100 days with a 12 days warning.

Code:

chage testus1 -M '100' -W '12'

I then entered chage testus1 to check if the changes are made.

There's this field called 'Password Inactive [-1]' . Do I have to change this to 1 for the changes to be active ?

From the man page, "Passing the number -1 as MAX_DAYS will remove checking a password's validity. " .

Not sure if the -1 in the 'Password Inactive [-1]' affects the changes made.

That's for the -M switch and you used 100, so you should be fine.
Can you post

Code:

change -l testus

Lowercase L switch