warnpassword and warnexpire in 5.1 login.conf

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Sun Aug 3 23:17:29 PDT 2003


On Sat, Aug 02, 2003, Mats Larsson wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Tried this question to the questions list with no response, perhaps
> current is the correct list for questions related to 5.1-RELEASE??
> 
> I am trying to use warnexpire and warnpassword in login.conf but with no
> result, are the warnexpire and warnpassword still used in 5.1 or have they
> been superseded with a PAM module in the same way as minpasswordlen and
> minpasswordcase??

They're part of the pam_unix PAM module now, but they should still
work.  I tried them a few months ago, and I don't remember any
special steps being necessary.  You ran cap_mkdb(1), right?


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