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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Passwd Expire'ing Date: 18 Nov 1996 16:59:54 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <56q4ma$8db@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <847976274.19159.0@kevinw.noc.demon.net> <56kvl7$7l@xciv.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) wrote: > I've no idea what 'from the epoch' means but since most specifications > of time in seconds are since 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 I will guess that's > what it means. :) Yep. ``The epoch'' means exactly this. > Now, how to generate such values for your /etc/passwd, I dunno. I've > done it before, I had to write some (not very good) code to do it, gets > difficult when you have to take the various leap year rules into account. chpass(1) does this for you, but is a little picky the possible formats to specify the date. See also the other postings for caveats on the password aging functionality itself. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j