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What field will cause the message Your password has expired to be displayed to the user?

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Last Update: January 30, 2010

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Submitted by: ehp_praveen

Hi,The /etc/shadow file contains following fields.Login-id : Which indicates the username of that perticular user.Passwd : It Contains encrypted password.Lastchg : Indicates the number of days between 1-JAN-1970 and last passwd modification date.Min : Contains minimum no of days required between password changes.Max : Contains the maximum no of days the password is valid before the user's propted to enter a passwd at login.Warn : Contains the number of days the user is warn before the password expires.Inactive : Contains the number of inactive days allowed for that user before the user's account is locked.Expire : contains the date when the user account expires once exceeded. The user can no longer log in also it will display the message "Your password has been expired".

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May 17, 2006 19:37:37

ehp_praveen

Member Since: March 2006 Contribution: 3

RE: What field will cause the message Your password ha...

Hi The /etc/shadow file contains following fields.Login-id : Which indicates the username of that perticular user.Passwd : It Contains encrypted password.Lastchg : Indicates the number of days between 1-JAN-1970 and last passwd modification date.Min : Contains minimum no of days required between password changes.Max : Contains the maximum no of days the password is valid before the user's propted to enter a passwd at login.Warn : Contains the number of days the user is warn before the password expires.Inactive : Contains the number of inactive days allowed for that user before the user's account is locked.Expire : contains the date when the user account expires once exceeded. The user can no longer log in also it will display the message Your password has been expired .

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June 03, 2008 01:20:47

krishnaraghava

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RE: What field will cause the message Your password has expired to be displayed to the user?

/etc/shadow file contain this in formation

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January 30, 2010 05:31:22

roserose1

Member Since: January 2010 Contribution: 2

RE: What field will cause the message Your password has expired to be displayed to the user?

User's password information will contain /etc/shadow file
under shadow file Max chnage field contain password expired info.

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