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# 1  
Old 11-13-2012
Passwd question
Hello,
I'm trying to set my SuSe severs to have accounts lock after 35 days. I have googled this and all I can find is the -f option for when the account password expires.
usermod -f user

On other systems this locks the account even if the password is not expired.

Can someone pint me in the right direction?
# 2  
Old 11-13-2012
Have you looked at the chage command?

---------- Post updated at 11:35 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:33 AM ----------

From the man page for the chage command:

Code:
-E, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE
          Set the date or number of days since January 1, 1970 on which the user?s account will no longer be accessible. The date may also be
          expressed in the format YYYY-MM-DD (or the format more commonly used in your area). A user whose account is locked must contact the
          system administrator before being able to use the system again.

          Passing the number -1 as the EXPIRE_DATE will remove an account expiration date.

# 3  
Old 11-13-2012
in2nix4life,
I don't think that will work. I'm looking for a command that will lock an account after 35 days of inactivity. I'm not looking to lock an account on a certain date.
# 4  
Old 11-13-2012
Did you look at the man page?
# 5  
Old 11-13-2012
The man page is not working on my SuSe servers.
example:
Code:
man passwd
Man: find all matching manual pages
* passwd (1)
   passwd (5)
   passwd (lssl)
Man: What manual page do you want?
Man:

I put in a number and I get this
Code:
/usr/bin/nroff: Can't create temp directory, exiting...
Manual page passwd(5) line 1/1 (end)

I'm quite new to SuSe so If I'm making an errors sorry about that.
# 6  
Old 11-13-2012
In the mean time perhaps this might help:
Man Page for chage (linux Section 1) - The UNIX and Linux Forums
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# 7  
Old 11-13-2012
Thanks for the providing me the man page.
I'm beginning to think I can't do what I'm being told to do. Which is to have user accounts lock after 35 days of inactivity. I see option where I can lock the account after the password expires. We have our user accounts passwords expire after 60 days. So this will not work.
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