Expiring passwords in 60/90 days

Am 25. Jul, 2003 schw=E4tzte Narayanasamy, Sundar so:

> I have bunch of Unix(Solaris) and Linux systems on my network. I was aske=
d
> by our corporate to force the users to change their personal passwords
> periodically. How do I do it with my current NIS system.

The true solution is to replace NIS with something like LDAP :).

Get NIS to also share /etc/shadow. Look at the man page for shadow to see
how to support requiring passwd changes.

'login' will likely need to call 'passwd' from NIS rather than the normal
system 'passwd'. I think that needs to be configged in PAM.

man shadow
man login
man passwd

ciao,

der.hans
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