Shell script to auto-change password before password expiry

From: Gold Sun (goldsun8_at_yahoo.com.sg)
Date: 04/25/05

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    Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:13:23 +0800 (CST)
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org

    Hi,
     
    We have a job that would fail to send reports out if the root
    password expires :
     
     # passwd -s root
    root PS 03/23/05 0 30 21

    Above shows password will expire 30 days from 23 Mar.
     
    So we have to manually change it by "passwd root" &
    this will give us another 30 days.
     
    Would anyone care to contribute a shell script that will
    help reset the password every 28 days (as February has
    28 days) which I can put in the crontab or the script can
    checks for password expiry every day & the expiry is
    less than 2 days away, the script will change it.
     
    I will summarize.
     
    Thanks
    G Sun
     

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