Unless at one time the expiration on the system was configured and your just bypassing that parm with the -1 on the useradd command line. If that were the case then users that were added without the -1 would expire eventually - just a guess. Take a look in /etc/default/useradd for what the systems knows as the default expiry.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Post, Mark K Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to make Linux passwords non-expirable? Sounds like someone with root authority is issuing a chage command. The system doesn't just arbitrarily expire passwords. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luis La Torre Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to make Linux passwords non-expirable? When we create a password - it is created with a -1 password days on the expiration date. Somehow now and then, one or two passwords become expired. Is there any way to get around the passwords getting expired permanently?. Eventually we will set up some kind of time limit for the expiration date to keep auditors off. Regards, Luis F. La Torre Database Administrator BAX Global Inc. 440 Exchange, Irvine Ca 92602 Phone: 714-442-7441 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
