[ale] Bash script help

[Jim Kinney]

student with root access tinkering around inside /etc/password?!?!?

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
wrote:

> Doctor Who wrote:
> > I'm trying to return the value of when the last time the root password
> > was changed.  The script would do something like:
> >
> > 1) more /etc/shadow | grep root | awk -F: '{print $3}'
> > 2) Take above value and add 1
> > 3) Multiple the result by 86400
> > 4) Substitute the value above after the @ below
> > 5) date -d @XXXX +"%B %d %G"
> > 6) Give me the output value of this
> >
> > I would like to keep this done using bash.  Any help appreciated.
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