How to give the same password which expired

[vrk]

Hello

If user password is expired then the request from the user is to provide the same password so how can we resolve.

[Nightshadow]

Hi,

First of all this would most likely be a violation of the security rules in your company. Password expiration is there with a reason.

But if you want to go ahead and just unlock his account, do the following:

vi /etc/passwd

look for the username of the user
the line will be something like this:

test:$6$ZFbSDzK0$8vCEBW.iTKx9lfbaTro.S/qAexmt/aYLa8NC8PDSsQP9dtiODTgZtWmkKxHAU8Z/zu5SOR9OyzOymrLvBN5xz1:15748:0:99999:7:::

change the value that is in the same place as where 15748 is in the line above. Do NOT change anything else.

Your user will now be able to log in with the old password

[NixSavy]

its should be in /etc/shadow

/etc/shadow format as below

user name :encrypted password : last modified :min change : max change days : warn days : disable days : disable time : reserved

[msohail]

Hi,

First of all this would most likely be a violation of the security rules in your company. Password expiration is there with a reason.

But if you want to go ahead and just unlock his account, do the following:

vi /etc/passwd

look for the username of the user
the line will be something like this:

test:$6$ZFbSDzK0$8vCEBW.iTKx9lfbaTro.S/qAexmt/aYLa8NC8PDSsQP9dtiODTgZtWmkKxHAU8Z/zu5SOR9OyzOymrLvBN5xz1:15748:0:99999:7:::

change the value that is in the same place as where 15748 is in the line above. Do NOT change anything else.

Your user will now be able to log in with the old password

Or if you have root access, simply use passwd command along with the username and you will have your old password back.

Jazak Allah
Sohail

[meton_magis]

instead of editing the /etc/shadow file manually, I suggest you read the man page for the chage command.

 man chage

and by running

 passwd -S username

to get the current details.

If you set the maxage to -1, you can disable account expiry, or make it larger to postpone the forced change.