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Does Solaris cron job still fail when password expires?
In solaris 8, I recall when root password expires, root cronjobs
would fail. Does this still happen with Solaris 10?
If so, what's the workaround?
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Thanks very much.
So "passwd -x -1 username" or in Linux, I do "usermod -x -1 username".
Is the chage command applicable in Solaris? I read that we can let password
expire without locking an account in Linux (& truly I don't understand what's tne
purpose of expiring an account without locking it): is this feature available in Solaris?
The exact command as given by the EE thread 27250189 :
chage -I 0 username OR
usermod -f -1 username
I heard from an ex-colleague that AIX UNIX's cron jobs will still run
as usual despite an AIX account's password has expired? Is this
true & is this a workaround just like Linux's "chage -I 0 username" ?
it depends on AIX version and TL release, in new releases there is usermod command
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Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.