Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi all, long time *nix guy, but new to AIX here.

I have an account whose maxage is set to zero, but it appears the password has expired?

AIX 7.1 (7100-00-01)

1. lsuser -a maxage dbuser

dbuser maxage=0

1. grep -p dbuser passwd

dbuser:
password = fakeabc123fake
lastupdate = 1297948414

1. perl -le 'print scalar localtime 1297948414'

Thu Feb 17 08:13:34 2011

1. date

Fri Feb 18 12:06:18 EST 2011
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Any ideas? Bug in AIX 7.1? Something more mundane?

Thanks,
Mark
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Originally posted by: dave-e

looks to me like someone changed the password even though he/she was not forced to change it. I believe that lastupdate just tracks the date/time that the password was changed not when/if it expired
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

dave-e is right,

lastupdate filed tell you the time of the password was last changed, here's the full description:

lastupdate: Specifies the time (in seconds) since the epoch (00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970) when the password was last changed. If password aging (the minage attribute or the maxage attribute) is in effect, the lastupdate attribute forces a password change when the time limit expires. (See the /etc/security/user file for information on password aging.) The passwd and pwdadm commands normally set this attribute when a password is changed. The value is a decimal integer that can be converted to a text string using the ctime subroutine.

and here's the url http://bit.ly/g6hHx9

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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Looks like someone changed the password on the account, but not in the WebSphere server using that account to talk to DB2, and the account ended up being locked.
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