[kanchilug] 1D1C - chage

  • From: Dhanasekar <tkdhanasekar@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 06:00:00 +0530

chage - change user password expiry information

example:
To view the list of options
$ chage -h

To view the account aging information
$ chage -l user_name

To set the last password change date to your specified date
$ chage -d 2022-03-01 user_name

To set the date when the account should expire
$ chage -E 2022-06-30 user_name

To specify the maximum and minimum number of days between password change
$ chage -M 90 user_name

To give prior warning 7days before the password expires
$ chage -W 7 user_name

To make the user account to be locked after X number of inactivity days
$ chage -I 10 user_name



regards,
T.Dhanasekar

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