[X4U] Password Expiration?

[Peter Krug]

Thanks, Jerry.  This may have promise.  I really wish man pages had 
good syntax examples, not with just variables.  You know, for us 
non-unix geeks.

Peter

On Apr 21, 2005, at 6:04 PM, mac2 wrote:

> extracted from
>
> -----------------------
>
> 467 # man 5 passwd
>
> much deleted here .....
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>      The change field is the number in seconds, GMT, from the epoch, 
> until the
>      password for the account must be changed.  This field may be left 
> empty
>      to turn off the password aging feature.
>
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>
> I missed the first part of this conversation, but every version of 
> Unix, or Unix clone, to include MacOS X, has had some type of password 
> expiration.
>
> per the MacOSX FAQ here:
>
> http://www.osxfaq.com/man/1/chpass.ws
>
> The chpass command can be used to modify the "Change:" time, which is 
> when a user must change their password by.
>
> Also from the chpass man page on a MacOS X 10.3.8 system, also note:
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>
>  This version of chpass is currently limited to changing user database 
> entries
>  in the flat file and local netinfo databases.
>
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>
> hope this helps.
>
> Jerry K
>
>
> Alex wrote:
>> On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Peter Krug wrote:
>>> [...] any computer with patient information must have its password 
>>> expire every 120 days [...]
>> I'm not an expert, but it seems to me that actually Mac OS X is 
>> superior in this respect to Windows. By default, neither supports 
>> expiry of local user passwords; however, Mac OS X fully supports 
>> OpenLDAP and Kerberos, as well as (at least in Tiger) Active 
>> Directory, and password expiry is available in all three. But this is 
>> a feature which would be implemented by the network admin, not by the 
>> local user.
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