When admin users don't need to change their password regularly, you might want to reconsider your site's security policy.
However, you can intercept that - depending on your shell - by using e.g. default values for parameters, or, better, sending a mail to the system admininstrator notifying him of the fact.
Disregarding that discussion, you might want to try this:
This will use a default value of 99999 days should maxpw be left empty. Default parameters may depend on your shell. I've put in echoes for demo purposes; remove them if you want the real stuff...
And, voila, not c[au]ts at all!
You sir are a Genius!! that worked perfectly.
Thanks alot everyone for help. and thanks for the patience.
login: TEST7
TEST7's Password:
Your password will expire: Wed Feb 19 14:28:08 2003
How can I the same information become in a script (as example
in the .profile)?????????
My login starts with .profile. These File is a menue with 24 lines and the message " Your password ....." disappear
to... (8 Replies)
Hi,
How to disable passwd expire in HP UNIX by not using SAM ?
In our system SAM have some strange bugs. However due to some reason, we cannot add that patch.
B. Rgds
Christina (3 Replies)
Hi,
Is there any way to find out the UNIX user's password expire date?. It'll we helpful to inform the users to change the password before it get expires.(FYI - I am not having only admin previlege.) (1 Reply)
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. (2 Replies)
Hi All,
Is this true on chage command?
-M, MAX_DAYS
Passing the number -1 as MAX_DAYS will remove checking a password's validity.
Does this means password will not expire anymore?
Thanks for any comment you may add. (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a small problem that I need to address regarding the password expiration for a number of different oracle accounts. Currently I have the MAXWEEKS set to 12 in the /etc/default/passwd file for all accounts. I also have sudo installed on the server and users access the oracle accounts... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am using sftp in batch script for which all configuration for public/private keys are done and it works fine without asking a password. No issues till this point. Now I the problem I have is that if the password expires/someone changes the authentication keys at reote server then the... (4 Replies)
Does anyone know if the default message displayed when a users password has expired can be changed? I am just assuming the message below is the default one. If so please tell.
Using username "justinxx".
justinxx@160.23.12.44's password:
WARNING: Your password has expired.
You must... (2 Replies)
Hi Lads,
I would like place the mechanism of force reset password to user when he login to the server after his password expired. Currently, We are resetting users once in every 60 days using cron job but I am thinking is there any other way to force reset passwords after it expires? I am using... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Navkreddy
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.10 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)