Re: [Security Firewall] User lockout

Andreas Hasenack <andreas-KCZ47A4bww4P48s/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.security.firewall
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:14:25PM +0200, Andre Krajnik wrote:
> I want to implement password expiration onto another masch like you've
> realized it in the mnf.
> What must be done to force a user to change his password in case of
> expiration.

Read some docs about shadow passwords and the fields in each line in
/etc/shadow. man shadow(5) and man chage(1) should help.
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