Password Expiry

[painesy]

I'm not sure if this is the right place but:

 

When I log in I get a message saying that my password will expire in 1 day.

I was wondering if this was normal and, if so, how I could change the timeout so that this would never happen.

 

Thanks

[Guest anon]

You need to give more info. Whats your setup, what are your running, MDK, red hat etc?

Desktop or server?

[painesy]

I'm running it on a computer running MDK that is to be used as a server.

 

I have stopped dm from running on startup so I just have a text based interface.

 

When I log in as an ordinary user or root it tells me that my password will expire inj 1 day.

 

I have not changed the password since I set up the computer.

[Guest anon]

Have a look in /etc/default/useradd

Make sure it reads something like this:

GROUP=100
HOME=/home
INACTIVE=-1
EXPIRE=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SKEL=/etc/skel

[painesy]

Yesterday I checked that code and the file is exactly like how it was posted.

 

It also said when I logged in that my password qould expire in 0 days.

 

Is there some sort of default timeout on passwords or something?

[Guest anon]

Is there some sort of default timeout on passwords or something?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not normally no.

Not sure what else to sugest here..........Ummmm Try this, install Webmin. ( manages your entire system) and from there you can view users acounts and set their password time limits.