Why password expiration turns on "automatically"

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Thursday 26 August 2004 18:12, cnorton at town.arlington.ma.us wrote:
> 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.

IIRC, this is a bug and it's somewhere in the bugzilla.redhat.com . RH may 
have decided to close this bug (not fix it) since RH 9 has reached end of 
life. This happens to me too when I use redhat-config-users in RH 9.

RDB 

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN

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