Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 151333
WB5 Pretest q 5
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:20:56 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1 Description of problem: [root@station root]# chage -l elvis Minimum: 5 Maximum: 20 Warning: 7 Inactive: -1 Last Change: Nov 04, 2003 Password Expires: Never Password Inactive: Never Account Expires: Never 5. After what date will elvis be forced to change his password upon login? A Nov 24, 2003 (correct) B Nov 11, 2003 C Nov 09, 2003 D elvis will never be forced to change his password. E Not enough information is provided. ******************* Wouldn't an inactive date of -1 cause the password to Never expire, making D the correct answer instead? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. complete wb 5 pretest 2. 3. Additional info:
inactive date is irrelevent, what's important is "Maximum" of 20... from chage(1) man page: With the -M option, the value of maxdays is the maximum number of days during which a password is valid. When maxdays plus lastday is less than the current day, the user will be required to change her password before being able to use her account. This occurance can be planned for in advance by use of the -W option, which provides the user with advance warning. .... The -I option is used to set the number of days of inactivity after a password has expired before the account is locked. The inactive option is the number of days of inactivity. A value of 0 disables this feature. A user whose account is locked must contact the system administrator before being able to use the system again.