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> Please help me out in writing a shell script which can pop-up a user
> when he logs on / his account is about required a password change,
> similar when we logon to windows is shows us a message "You are
> required to change the password within x days"

> I am not getting the logic to build a script which can generate the
> password aging info for all users present on sun boxes.

> ex:

> PS 030195 10 7 -1

> Rgds,
> zamaron

> > Please help me out in writing a shell script which can pop-up a user
> > when he logs on / his account is about required a password change,
> > similar when we logon to windows is shows us a message "You are
> > required to change the password within x days"

> > I am not getting the logic to build a script which can generate the
> > password aging info for all users present on sun boxes.

> > ex:

> > PS 030195 10 7 -1

> > Rgds,
> > zamaron

> We needed a custom script to do something similar. Ours is a perl script
> that uses third field in the shadow file to tell us when the users
> password was changed last. We place a 65 day limit on a users password.
> At 55 days we start sending the user email notifying them that their
> password is going to expire. If they do not change the password befor
> the expiration date their login shell is changed and they will not be
> able to log in. Once that happens they need to call the help desk to get
> their password reset.

> There are several companion scripts that monitor changes in the password
> file and CGI web pages that allow us to scan the user accounts and see
> who is about to expire and who isn't.

> We have had our script in place for 3 or 4 years now and it's working
> just fine. We also have a screen lock policy. Most everyone on Unix uses
> CDE so we have another script that goes into a users .dt directory and
> sets his screen lock and lock time. This also works very well.

>>>Hi,

>>>Please help me out in writing a shell script which can pop-up a user
>>>when he logs on / his account is about required a password change,
>>>similar when we logon to windows is shows us a message "You are
>>>required to change the password within x days"

>>>I am not getting the logic to build a script which can generate the
>>>password aging info for all users present on sun boxes.

>>>ex:

>>>PS 030195 10 7 -1

>>>Rgds,
>>>zamaron

>>We needed a custom script to do something similar. Ours is a perl script
>>that uses third field in the shadow file to tell us when the users
>>password was changed last. We place a 65 day limit on a users password.
>>At 55 days we start sending the user email notifying them that their
>>password is going to expire. If they do not change the password befor
>>the expiration date their login shell is changed and they will not be
>>able to log in. Once that happens they need to call the help desk to get
>>their password reset.

>>There are several companion scripts that monitor changes in the password
>>file and CGI web pages that allow us to scan the user accounts and see
>>who is about to expire and who isn't.

>>We have had our script in place for 3 or 4 years now and it's working
>>just fine. We also have a screen lock policy. Most everyone on Unix uses
>>CDE so we have another script that goes into a users .dt directory and
>>sets his screen lock and lock time. This also works very well.