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Old 04-04-2007
Set Password Never Expire

Hello

I want to set the password for user never expire through the command line. For your information the box is running under Solaris 8 platform.
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Old 04-04-2007
man passwd, search for aging.
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Old 04-10-2007
#passwd -x -1 username


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krishna
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