A single word that sends shivers through the spine of many an IT pro. You have to deal with users who create overly simple passwords, forget their passwords or forget to change those passwords with any regularity.
You need to know how to manage user passwords. But how? What are the tools you need to use to make this task easier? And how can you create policies to ensure passwords are strong and regularly changed?
Let's say you want to expire a user's [called 'vega'] password at some point in the future. For example, say it's November 24, 2026, and you want the password to expire on December 9, 2026. That's possible using the built-in chage command.
You can view the expiry date with the command: sudo chage -I 30 vega
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