David Guntner wrote:

Larry Sword grabbed a keyboard and wrote:

Oh, and the setting is in /etc/sysconfig/msec file.
TMOUT=0 # for never expire

Actually, that environment variable is for setting the shell timeout. I.E., if you're inactive for a given period of time, the shell closes. Setting to 0 disables that. But it has nothing to do with passwords. :-)

Hum, and all this time I've apparently mistakenly thought this was for setting the password aging and not the shell timeout. Guess I have to get better acquainted with the and mseclib.
Thanks :-[
Larry


I'm not sure *what* happened along the way, but it appears that I did have the setting correct (in /etc/security/msec/level.local, I had "password_aging(-1)" set, which is what is supposed to do it (or at least, it did once upon a time). I set it to 99999 and ran msec again to apply it. I've stopped getting the warning notice for now, so I guess it worked. :-)

--Dave

--Dave

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