Showing posts with label chage command. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chage command. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Display Information About User Password on Linux

To display password information ie.

  • password expire date
  • if the password is active or not
  • the number of days after the account expires
  • minimum number of days between password change
  • maximum number of days between password change
  • how many days to give warning before the password expires

The chage can be used like this,
chage -l username

For example, chage -l shovon
Last password change     : Oct 09, 2016
Password expires     : never
Password inactive     : never
Account expires      : never
Minimum number of days between password change  : 0
Maximum number of days between password change  : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7