passwd -s

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,
I've a problem regarding understanding of result of passwd -s command.

> passwd -s
abc  PS    05/24/12    0  441

I'm not a super user. But i need to write a simple code for checking password expiry and send an email to the team id. Is there any other command or way to achieve this? Requesting help in this regard.

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Hi, Got the info about passwd -s output
in the above eg.

 
abc=userid; PS=passworded; 05/24/12=date on which passwd was last changed; 0=minimum number of days between password changes; 441=maximum number of days the password is valid for the name

Pls let me know if i'm wrong.

2

The best for you is to look at the man pages... since it seems there are variations between the diverse OS implementation ( just looked at HP-UX and AIX...)

3

man pages didn't give correct info of each of fields displayed for passwd -s ouput. Could anyone please guide in making a script for password aging with this output.

4

You haven't even told us your system yet, even though we mentioned there's differences between them.

5

Hello,
I have Solaris and RHEL at my site.

This works for solaris

passwd -s username

This works for RHEL

passwd -S username

I hope this helps

6

sorry for delay. i'm working on HP-UX B.11.23

7

As a non-root user are you trying to write a script which only applies to the current logged-in user? As a non-root user you will be stopped from interrogating other users.
As root user, I find the logins command much more useful than passwd for password expiry details. Notably logins -xto which gives output which is easy to parse in a script. Beware of the American format dates if you are a UK user.