A very common Linux administration task is to set user account to expire their password and request a new account password from the user.
To see what the current policy is set to, execute the following.
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sudo chage -l username |
You should see output like.
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Last password change : May 27, 2020Password expires : Sep 24, 2020 Password inactive : never Account expires : never Minimum number of days between password change : 0 Maximum number of days between password change : 120 Number of days of warning before password expires : 7 |
You can change the password expiry with the following command
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sudo chage -M 120 username |
