On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:15 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 10:42 PM -0500 12/19/06, Simon Wu wrote: > >On 12/19/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> At 1:20 PM -0500 12/19/06, Simon Wu wrote: > >> >Hello, > >> > > >> >I have a Fedora 3 system. The local user account passwd expires every > >> >few months. How can I disable this? > >> > >> I think you want to use usermod to set --inactive to -1. man usermod. > >> -- > > > >Default value for --inactive is -1. I never set this value when the > >account was created. There is also an -e for account expiration date, > >not passwd expiration date. This value was default when the account > >was created. Don't know what is the default value of YYYY-MM-DD. > > Hmm, you're right, that's for expiring the account, not the password. > Looking further, I see that /etc/shadow contains the days until the > password must be changed. For my accounts it is 99999 (about 300 years). You are certainly the eternal Optimist! Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
