I want to do a search for users on my solaris boxes that have been inactive for a defined number of days and then delete them.
Any ideas how to determine or calculate the number of days (possibly using the /var/adm/wtmpx file) from the user's last login to the current date of search.
In order to keep the site "clean, safe and warm", I have recently purged all accounts at UNIX.COM which meet the ALL of the following 3 criteria:
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Link in user profile.
In addition, I purged all users who registered but never confirmed... (6 Replies)
Goal: To disable a Solaris user, after that user was inactive for X days.
My understanding for linux was that there was no systematic way to disable inactive users, therefore we had to set a password expiration via /etc/default/passwd, MaxWeeks; then in /etc/default/useradd (/etc/shadow), the... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have to backup users from one server and put them on another server. I have tried cp -pr, copied over the passwd, group, shadow and appended the users from the old server to the new servers files, rebooted and still can't login. The server accepts that new accounts are there but not... (2 Replies)
Hi
I have a Sun M4000 with 1 Global and 4 non-global zones running Solaris. the downtime to apply the latest Recommend Patch Cluster is about 8hrs. The client will not give me the downtime.
I want to use PATCHING TO INACTIVE BOOT ENVIRONMENT method and need urgent assistance.
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Hi,
Can I get a script to list out all the users, who has not logged on since last 90 days. Last command in not working due due to /var/adm/wtmpx is more than 2 GB.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Roni (10 Replies)
hi i need to make a script that will check the directories of the users on mp3 or mp4 files. if so they must be automaticly deleted and they have to get a warning message instead.
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I would like to automatically logout from the system inactive users depending on their functions.
For example there are users that I would like to logout after 15 minutes of inactivity, but there are others that I would like to logout after 30 minutes of inactivity.
It's possible to do this??? (6 Replies)
chage(1) General Commands Manual chage(1)NAME
chage - change user password expiry information
SYNOPSIS
chage [-D binddn] [-P path] [-m mindays]
[-M maxdays] [-d lastday] [-I inactive] [-E expiredate] [-W warndays] user
chage -l [user]
DESCRIPTION
chage is used to list and change the password expiry information of a user. It allows the system administrator to change the number of days
between allowed and required password changes and the date of the last password change. It allows also to define when an account will
expire. The chage command is restricted to the system administrator, except for the -l option, which may be used by an user to determine
when his password or account is due to expire.
If no option is given, chage operates in an interactive mode, prompting the user with the current values for all of the fields. Enter the
new value to change the field, or leave the line blank to use the current value. If the users exists in the local passwd file, but not in
the local shadow file, chage will create a new entry in the shadow file.
OPTIONS -D, --binddn binddn
Use the Distinguished Name binddn to bind to the LDAP directory. The user will be prompted for a password for simple authentica-
tion.
-P, --path path
The passwd and shadow files are located below the specified directory path. chage will use this files, not /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow. This is useful for example on NIS master servers, where you do not want to give all users in the NIS database auto-
matic access to your NIS server and the NIS map is build from special files.
-l, --list
This option will list the password expiry information in a human readable format. The user will see the date when he changed the
password the last time, when the password will be expire, when the password will be locked and when the account will expire.
-m, --mindays mindays
With this option the minimum number of days between password changes is changed. A value of zero for this field indicates that the
user may change her password at any time. Else the user will not be permitted to change the password until min days have elapsed.
-M, --maxdays maxdays
With this option the maximum number of days during which a password is valid is changed. When maxdays plus lastday is less than the
current day, the user will be required to change his password before being able to use the account.
-d, --lastday lastday
With this option the date when the password was last changed can be set to another value. lastday has to be specified as number of
days since January 1st, 1970. The date may also be expressed in the format YYYY-MM-DD. If supported by the system, a value of zero
forces the user to change the password at next login.
-E, --expiredate expiredate
With this option the date when the account will be expired can be changed. expiredate has to be specified as number of days since
January 1st, 1970. The date may also be expressed in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
-I, --inactive inactive
This option is used to set the number of days of inactivity after a password has expired before the account is locked. A user whose
account is locked must contact the system administrator before being able to use the account again. A value of -1 disables this
feature.
-W, --warndays warndays
With this option the number of days of warning before a password change is required can be changed. This option is the number of
days prior to the password expiring that a user will be warned the password is about to expire.
FILES
passwd - user account information
shadow - shadow user account information
SEE ALSO passwd(1), passwd(5)AUTHOR
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
pwdutils November 2005 chage(1)