July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Set the number of days after a password has expired before the
account is disabled.
-k, --keep-tokens
Keep passwords (authentication tokens) that have not expired.
-l, --lock
Lock the user’s account.
-n days, --minimum=days
Set the minimum number of days that the password is valid.
-S, --status
Print the status of the user’s password.
--stdin
Read new passwords from standard input.
-u, --unlock
Unlock the user’s account
--usage
Display a brief usage message. See also --help.
-w days, --warning=days
Set the number of days of warning users will get before their
password expires.
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specifying a file. See also cut, join, and pr.
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columns with different characters by supplying more than one
char.
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