Comments on: FreeBSD: Password expiry / aging policy http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-password-expiry-aging-policy-part-i.html This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vivekhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-password-expiry-aging-policy-part-i.html#comment-141923 vivek Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:44:29 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-password-expiry-aging-policy-part-i.html#comment-141923 andrei, Thanks for the heads up. The post has been updated. andrei,

Thanks for the heads up. The post has been updated.

]]> By: andrei manescuhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-password-expiry-aging-policy-part-i.html#comment-141922 andrei manescu Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:55:27 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/freebsd-password-expiry-aging-policy-part-i.html#comment-141922 I think you got it wrong: * -p DAYS: Set default account expiration period in days * -e DAYS: Set default password expiration period in days Man pw disagrees :) -p date Set the account's password expiration date. This field is similar to the account expiration date option, except that it applies to forced password changes. This is set in the same manner as the -e option. -e date Set the account's expiration date. Format of the date is either a UNIX time in decimal, or a date in `dd-mmm-yy[yy]' format, where dd is the day, mmm is the month, either in numeric or alphabetic format ('Jan', 'Feb', etc) and year I think you got it wrong:
* -p DAYS: Set default account expiration period in days
* -e DAYS: Set default password expiration period in days

Man pw disagrees :)
-p date Set the account’s password expiration date. This field is
similar to the account expiration date option, except that
it applies to forced password changes. This is set in the
same manner as the -e option.

-e date Set the account’s expiration date. Format of the date is
either a UNIX time in decimal, or a date in `dd-mmm-yy[yy]‘
format, where dd is the day, mmm is the month, either in
numeric or alphabetic format (‘Jan’, ‘Feb’, etc) and year

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