[Systems] Sunjammer password expired

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Fri Aug 28 14:25:45 EDT 2009


El Fri, 28-08-2009 a las 03:13 -0400, Luke Faraone escribió:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 21:08, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> wrote:
>         I understand that the 180 day password expiration policy can
>         be quite annoying, but it's a good security practice and helps
>         us detect idle accounts that could be closed.
> 
> Can't we just check the last-login attribs for the above said
> services? See also, http://www.cryptosmith.com/sanity/expharmful.html
> and http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=password+expiration
> +problem :)

Ok, you've 80% convinced me :-)

Who would like to write a script to check for users who have not been
logging in for a while and send a report by email?  Wes?

For inspiration, I'd start by looking at /etc/cron.weekly/badusers on
sunjammer.

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