login.conf password options

[James Harrison]

Hi folks,

I've slowly been setting up some options for the default class in
login.conf such that passwords will expire after 150 days. To test
whether this functionality was working, I have a warning appear on the
first day, so that if I set a password and log in , I ought to be warned
that my password will expire in 150 days.

It doesn't appear to be working. I am not receiving any kind of warning
that my password will expire.

To see whether I was correctly in the default class, I changed the
message of the day file from /etc/motd to /etc/motw, and the message of
the day changed appropriately. I then set up a session limit of an hour
and a half with a warning appearing after 1 minute, but that isn't
working either.



The method I'm using is this: I use vi to edit the /etc/login.conf, then
run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf. I then reboot the machine, to make sure
that everything that ought to be paying attention does.

I suspected that /etc/master.passwd might need updating, so I used vipw,
made a trivial change, saved the change, but nothing.


My default class reads:


default:\
        :passwd_format=md5:\
        :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
        :welcome=/etc/motd:\
        :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\
        :path=/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin ~/bin:\
        :nologin=/var/run/nologin:\
        :cputime=unlimited:\
        :datasize=unlimited:\
        :stacksize=unlimited:\
        :memorylocked=unlimited:\
        :memoryuse=unlimited:\
        :filesize=unlimited:\
        :coredumpsize=unlimited:\
        :openfiles=unlimited:\
        :maxproc=unlimited:\
        :sbsize=unlimited:\
        :vmemoryuse=unlimited:\
        :priority=0:\
        :ignoretime@:\
        :umask=022:\
        :passwordtime=150d:\
        :warnpassword=150d:
        :sessiontime=1h30m:\
        :warntime=1h29m:


Any ideas?