[X4U] Password Expiration?

Peter Krug pkrug at mac.com
Thu Apr 21 21:51:30 PDT 2005


On Apr 22, 2005, at 12:43 AM, Alex wrote:

>
> On Apr 22, 2005, at 12:02 AM, Peter Krug wrote:
>
>> I need password expiration at the login screen.
>
> As Jerry pointed out, this appears to be possible from the CLI using 
> chpass. However, I'm not sure how chpass interacts with the local 
> NetInfo database, since the expire time value appears neither in 
> NetInfo Manager, nor in nidump -- e.g., try
>
> nidump -r /name=users/uid=501 -t <machine_name>/local
>
> (Perhaps because it hasn't been set? Yet shadow passwd appears, 
> although it hasn't been set either.) But I know very little on the 
> subject. Maybe you should ask this question on the x-unix list...
>

Thanks Alex,

I'll look into it.

Peter



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