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How expiration dates in the shadow file really work
tl;dr: Accounts expire as soon as UTC reaches the expiration date. In today‘s installment of my classic shame-inducing series “UNIX basics for UNIX professionals”, I want to talk about account (and password) expiration in /etc/shadow on Linux. The expiration time … Continue reading
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