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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: password aging
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.022811.18554@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 12 Mar 91 02:28:11 GMT
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In <1991Mar11.185411.2414@ssd.kodak.com> dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox) writes:

>System type: Sun4/280, SunOS4.1.1

>I am looking for a script that I can implement on my system that will
>prompt the users to change their password every xx days.  Thanks.

SunOS 4.1 has this built in.  See ``man passwd''.  Unfortunately,
``yppasswd'' doesn't know about it, so users can't change their password
remotely once password aging is enabled.  Maybe it's fixed in 4.1.1?
Is anyone using this?
-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-