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Following Dereck's explanation of how it is supposed to work (based on
password creation date, not current date), is this still an issue?
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Password aging appears to be ignored
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240234
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The command quoted:
sudo passwd -x 15 john
Should cause the password to expire in 15 days. Dereck, if you get
prompted for a new password immediately then this is clearly a confirmed
bug. That's what happens for me too.
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Password aging appears to be ignored
-x This will set the maximum password lifetime, in days, if the user's
account supports password lifetimes. Available to root only. - man
passwd(1)
Are you sure that the password for john had been set within 15 days
before you used 'sudo passwd -x 15 john'? The lifetime apparently begins
when the
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Password aging appears to be ignored
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240234
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I find that expiring a password as per the report causes me to be
prompted to change my password when logging in via ssh, virtual console,
and gdm.
I changed my password as prompted by GDM and logged in and back out.
unable to confirm.
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