[olug] Slackware shadow account usage

[Brian Roberson]

the package you will want to be intimate is called shadow-utils 

usefull manual pages
man pwconv
man chage

usefull undocumented command line options to passwd
-e   expire user password ( force password change on next login )

usefull files 
/etc/login.defs

useful features
faillog


VERY useful  HOWTO:

http://www.olug.org/LDP/HOWTO/Shadow-Password-HOWTO.html









On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:38:41PM -0600, Jonathan Warren wrote:
> I want to know the best way to manage user accounts.  I am tryign to learn more about the /etc/shadow file and how to control accounts and passwords based on timeouts and system policies.  Any help would be appreciated.
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