On Friday June 13 2003 10:55 am, you wrote:
> I have this weird password expiration problem for one of over 60 user
> accounts on a Redhat Linux 7.2 server. After 30 days the password no longer
> works unless I issue a passwd command to change the password. Then in
> another 30 days I'll have to do it again. No other accounts on this server
> has this problem.
>
> /etc/login.defs
> PASS_MAX_DAYS 99999
>
> /etc/passwd
> testuser:x:599:2501::/home/testuser:/bin/bash
>
> /etc/shadow
> testuser:$1$XfzqoAC.$JUYDZR30AQe5JSwi0mVzb1:12216:0:99999:7:::
>
> Does the above look ok? Is there another file that controls expiration.
>
> FYI - I'm using linuxconf-1.25r7-3 to make the user account changes.
>
> Brett
That looks fine. But, is that where the system is looking for passwords?
Verify if /etc/pam.d/authconfig is using system-auth. You may find that it is
looking elsewhere, such as LDAP or NIS and that the password expiration
settings are different there.
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