Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I wanted to check when the password of a current user(logged in) has been changed recently.
I tried with the commands like

Code:

passwd -s name
logins -x -l username everthing

but it shows

Code:

not a super user

Which commands will help me.. Kindly help.. Thanks in advance.

The date an account's password has changed is stored in /etc/shadow which is readable only by root.
See shadow for more details.

Am not a root user . Any other way i can know those information.?

Two problems:

first, how systems store this information (when the password has been changed recently) is diffferent from one system to the next. derekludwig has told you how some Linux variants do it, but in other UNIXes (or UNIX-like) systems this is done differently. In AIX, for instance, it is done in the /etc/security-directory in several files. To really help you here you wll have to post more details about your system.

second: as a non-root user you simply cannot get this information. It is none of your business (from a systems POV). Everything else would be a severe security-breach.

I hope this helps.

bakunin