[ale] using "chage" to disable accounts

[Scott Nolde]

An option to disable the account is to use an asterisk '*' in the
password field of /etc/passwd, similar to the nobody user.

- Scott

ChrisColeman at mail.clayton.edu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use `chage` to disable accounts on a certain date. This is on
> a Redhat 6.2 system. When I issue the command  `chage -E 2000-12-31
> user_name`. Then I used `chage -l user_name` to list the parameters. It
> shows the following:
> 
> Minimum:        0
> Maximum:        99999
> Warning:        7
> Inactive:       -1
> Last Change:            Jan 03, 2001
> Password Expires:       Never
> Password Inactive:      Never
> Account Expires:        Jun 24, 1975
> 
> If I use chage interactively, it sets the correct date for the account to be
> expired, however, users can log in after the account should have expired.
> 
> I found the chage is part of the shadow-utils-19990827-10 package. I could
> not find any updates for this package. Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Chris Coleman
> School of Technology
> Clayton College and State University
> 770-960-4282
> 
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