Re: [SLUG] users/passwords expiring

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 16:44:48 EDT


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It gets weirder. The EXPIRE field reads:

EXPIRE=

Looks good to me. I think the GUI does something screwy and bypasses
/etc/default/useradd

...more to come...

/mario

On Friday 27 August 2004 15:32, you as Levi Bard wrote:
> > I don't know how these users got like this. I do everything like this:
> > useradd [user], passwd [user], usermod -G [group] [user], smbadduser
> > [user], smbpasswd [user] I've never had a problem before.
>
> Question: useradd has the -G option; why not roll that and the usermod
> into one command?
>
> In /etc/default/useradd, the following line should be what you're looking
> for: EXPIRE=
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