wants to know last password change date..

rajini23 · 03-28-2013, 02:33 AM

Hi,

I wants to know when was the last password changed for the user in solaries9 machine,
please help me in finding the last date of password changed...

shivaa · 03-28-2013, 07:58 AM

Just go through the manual page of 'shadow'.

However, if you will check /etc/shadow file, its 3rd field is for last change, that is, number of day between Jan 1, 1970 and the date that the password was last modified.
Thus, calculate time elapsed between today and 1970-Jan-1 and substract that value from 3rd field of /etc/shadow, and you will get no. of days that the password was last changed.

As per it's manual:

Code:

~$ man shadow


     Each entry in the shadow file has the form:

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

     lastchg         The number of days between January 1,  1970,
                     and  the  date  that  the  password was last
                     modified. The lastchg  value  is  a  decimal
                     number, as interpreted by atol(3C).

Blinker_Fluid · 04-01-2013, 12:53 PM

I usually figure it out by resetting my password (so it will represent the current date) and then compare the 3rd column number to mine to determine how long ago they set it.

jlliagre · 04-02-2013, 12:32 PM

This would work too:

Code:

nawk 'BEGIN{srand();print srand()/(24*3600)}'