Why password expiration turns on "automatically"

[cnorton at town.arlington.ma.us]

Thursday, August 26, 2004

Hi!

We are adding user accounts to a new Red Hat 9 system.  Occasionally when we
are either adding a user or assign the user to a group, the password
expiration is turned back on for almost all users on the system.  This
happens whether we use command line or Gnome interface.

I'd be interested in finding out what we're doing to trigger this behavior.

Thanks.
cmn

Charles M. Norton
Manager of Systems Development
Town of Arlington, MA
Data Processing Department
869 Massachusetts Avenue
Arlington, MA 02476

cnorton at town.arlington.ma.us

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