Re: Password Expiration on 5.2

No!
You want the MAX. AGE parameter. That's in weeks, so either 4 or 5 for a
month.

"Weeks between password EXPIRATION and LOCKOUT" means that after a password
expires, if it hasn't been updated 4 weeks later the userid gets locked, so
it can't be used at all - not even to set a new password - until an
administrator unlocks it.

If you've got a lot of users to co it's probably easier to use the chuser
command.
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Larry Scheetz
Sent: 29 June 2006 15:18
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Password Expiration on 5.2


Admins,

I am trying to setup all user to have their password expire every 30 days.
I have made two changes in "smit passwdattrs" and they are below. I want to
make sure that the system will expire a user's password every month (30
days) and it will warn them 3 days before it is going to expire. Would the
below changes be correct? Looks like the default Weeks between Expiration
was -1. Any help would be appreciated.



Days to WARN USER before password expires [3]

Weeks between password EXPIRATION and LOCKOUT [4]

Thanks Larry

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