Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:14:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Alec Kloss <alec@D2SI.COM> To: root@net.bluemoon.net (Blue Moon Network Administrator) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login user expirations Message-ID: <199909031914.OAA05516@D2SI.COM> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.951MOON.990903143554.21573A-100000@net.bluemoon.net> from Blue Moon Network Administrator at "Sep 3, 1999 2:54:25 pm"
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Blue Moon Network Administrator said: > > I am currently running several FreeBSD machines as part of our web and > server farm, frankly I have always loved FreeBSD since I first tried it in '95. > > One thing I haven't found for FBSD is a straight-forward login user > authentication system incorporating account expiration and locking methods. > > We currently use Digital Unix 3.2c for our dialup auth and shell account users > and it isn't y2k ready. I'm not about to spend $10K to get ripped off by Compaq > for an upgrade to Tru64 Unix 4.0d, an unlimited site license, etc. ad nauseum > as I learned the hard way that DEC rips you off any way they can. It's time to > retire our Alphaserver 1000 and move on to the future. > > I'd like to do it with FreeBSD, but we need time based user account expiration > and authentication for use with both radius and FTP/shell users. > > Is there anything for FreeBSD that would expedite this sort of thing or would > we be on our own writing some sort of PAM module? > > Thanks for any help you might be able to provide. > "man 5 passwd" implies that FreeBSD already supports password aging. I've never tried it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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