10-29-2001
Hi there,
Thanks for your email. I thought my original email was pretty clear? Ok anyway, what I would do in unix to get today's date usually I use for filenames, or report headings etc:
echo "`date + %d%m%Y`"
No what would be helpful for me would be to get the date in the above format 7 days ago or however many days I specify to go back or forward.
Can you help?
Many thanks,
Chee...
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lchage - Display or change user password policy
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lchage [OPTION]... user
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Displays or allows changing password policy of user.
OPTIONS
-d, --date=days
Set the date of last password change to days after Jan 1 1970.
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-E, --expire=days
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-i, --interactive
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-I, --inactive=days
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the account enabled indefinitely after password expiration.
-l, --list
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-m, --mindays=days
Require at least days days between password changes. Set days to 0 or -1 to disable this requirement.
If this value is larger than the value set by --maxdays, the user cannot change the pasword.
-M, --maxdays=days
Require changing the password after days since last password change. Set days to -1 to disable password expiration.
-W, --warndays=days
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EXIT STATUS
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