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chage

Change user account and password expiry information. More information: https://manned.org/chage.

  • List password information for the user:

chage --list username

  • Enable password expiration in 10 days:

sudo chage --maxdays 10 username

  • Disable password expiration:

sudo chage --maxdays -1 username

  • Set account expiration date:

sudo chage --expiredate YYYY-MM-DD username

  • Force user to change password on next log in:

sudo chage --lastday 0 username

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