Re: Getting password expiration date

From: Alan D Johnson (adjtech_at_hvc.rr.com)
Date: 09/22/05 

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:03:37 GMT

jc@kc.rr.com wrote:
> We are using password aging on our HP-UX 11.11 system, and I've
> recently been told that if a user goes into the system using SSH then
> they will never see a warning about their password expiring. We have
> experienced this recently and it was ugly. Anyway, is there a way to
> programmatically get a user's expiration date for their password? I
> can set up a script to email folks to warn them if so. Thanks.
>
Are you using trusted systems? if so getprpw(1M). It depends on what
versions of ssh and your patch levels on the system too, there have been
issues that have been patched recently.

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