06-29-2011
You are right in that if the columns for min and max are not in the shadow file then the policy isnt yet affecting the account. Usually if you have a password policy in place then once the pw is reset those settings would come into play.
You are also right about the 6445 in the shadow file being days since Jan 1 1970.
Alot of applications that help sync passwords from machine to machine may copy the shadow entry for root from one box to another, someone or something may have copied this simply to sync the root pw using like a sed script.
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