I am running Solaris 10 Generic_118833-24 and the password expiratio
interval is set to 12 weeks (84 days). My question pertains to th
field in the /etc/shadow file that stores the date on which a passwor
expires, expressed as a number of days since January 1, 1970. When
user sets their password this value is updated. However, that valu
also updated when a user's account is locked ( i.e. from three faile
logins) and when the account is unlocked either using "passwd -l" o
SMC. Therefore, the user will have another 84 days before thei
password expires everytime their account is locked or unlocked.
question -- Is there anyway to keep the passwd expiration date the sam
after unlocking a user account?

Thank

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On Mar 14, 2:00 pm, reggiet08 <reggiet08.2ng...@no-
mx.unixadmintalk.com> wrote:
> I am running Solaris 10 Generic_118833-24 and the password expiration
> interval is set to 12 weeks (84 days). My question pertains to the
> field in the /etc/shadow file that stores the date on which a password
> expires, expressed as a number of days since January 1, 1970. When a
> user sets their password this value is updated. However, that value
> also updated when a user's account is locked ( i.e. from three failed
> logins) and when the account is unlocked either using "passwd -l" or
> SMC. Therefore, the user will have another 84 days before their
> password expires everytime their account is locked or unlocked.
> question -- Is there anyway to keep the passwd expiration date the same
> after unlocking a user account?
>
> Thanks
>
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Not exactly sure why you would want to do that, but the simplest way
is to copy back the old epoch value for the user in /etc/shadow after
the password is unlocked.

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:00:02 -0700, reggiet08 <reggiet08.2ng8qf@no-mx.unixadmintalk.com> wrote:

>
>I am running Solaris 10 Generic_118833-24 and the password expiration
>interval is set to 12 weeks (84 days). My question pertains to the
>field in the /etc/shadow file that stores the date on which a password
>expires, expressed as a number of days since January 1, 1970. When a
>user sets their password this value is updated. However, that value
>also updated when a user's account is locked ( i.e. from three failed
>logins) and when the account is unlocked either using "passwd -l" or
>SMC. Therefore, the user will have another 84 days before their
>password expires everytime their account is locked or unlocked.
>question -- Is there anyway to keep the passwd expiration date the same
>after unlocking a user account?
Did you mean,
"question -- Is there, anyway, to keep the passwd expiration
date the same after unlocking a user account?"
or
"question -- Is there any way to keep the passwd expiration date the same
after unlocking a user account?
>

>


>
>Thanks
>
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