From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 03:16:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA00801 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:16:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA00747 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:16:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from hornet.netac.co.za (root@hornet.netac.co.za [196.3.237.162]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA23166 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 00:46:35 -0800 Received: (from tony@localhost) by hornet.netac.co.za (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05071 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:46:22 +0200 From: Tony Harverson Message-Id: <199603080846.KAA05071@hornet.netac.co.za> Subject: Expiry Date entry ? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:46:22 +0200 (SAT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Heya All, I was just wondering what process an expiry date goes thru before its recorded in the master.passwd file. I want to generate the dates for the master.passwd in a script, but a look at the master.passwd doesn't make them seem very interpretable. Exactly how is that field formatted ? Thanks Tony -- <+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+> || Tony Harverson | GCS d++>-- H>H+ s !g p? au- a-- w+++ v++>--- || || Unix Admin | C++++ UB++++$ P+>++++ L-- 3+++ E--- N++ K !W--- || || Internet Support | M-- !V po Y+ t+ !5 !j R+ G' tv b++ D B---- e+ || || Person | u-(++) h!(*)>++ f+ r n--- !x+ || <+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+> Unix Rules all - Freebsd Forever :)