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Old 04-01-2007
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Find user password expiry date
Does anyone know a simple way to find out the expiry date of my UNIX user password?

I do not have root access to the box.

Surely there is a way to so this...
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Old 04-02-2007
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From man pages :
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-S This will output a short information about the status of the password for a given account. Available to root
user only.
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-w This will set the number of days in advance the user will begin receiving warnings that her password will
expire, if the user’s account supports password lifetimes. Available to root only.

-i This will set the number of days which will pass before an expired password for this account will be taken to
mean that the account is inactive and should be disabled, if the user’s account supports password lifetimes.
Available to root only.
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Old 04-02-2007
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.... Thanks for replying. As previosly stated, I do not have root access. Thus, none of those switches are of any use to me.

Any other ideas or workarounds?

A bit more background on my situation.

I am accessing a box, which on logon is not setup to notify me when my password will expire.

On the weekend, my password expired, and as such my weekend cron jobs failed. (I can only assume that cron will not execute jobs as my user when my password is expired?)

I am hoping to write a simple script to notify me to change my password when it is about to expire.

Sort of requesting the root user to change something, is there any way to achieve this?
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