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Please tell me how to set a remainder to change the passwords for every 45 days on linux and unix machines.


Thanks,
Srihari

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  • Should be over at unix.stackexchange.com
    – Michael
    Jun 13, 2011 at 14:05

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Take a look at chage command in Linux.

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  • Hi Anubhava can you please provide one example with change command and eloborate,I aleardy used passwd command for changing the password can I use the same for get warning messages for password expiry.
    – srihari
    Jun 13, 2011 at 14:20
  • @srihari: Here are some examples of change command: thegeekstuff.com/2009/04/…
    – anubhava
    Jun 13, 2011 at 14:27
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Also look at the -w and -x of the passwd command - at least on linux, not sure about other platforms.

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  • Works in Solaris
    – Duane
    Jun 16, 2011 at 0:08

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