=====Password Management=====

====Chage====
Use chage to change age etc of a password

^  option  ^  what it does  ^
^  M  |  sets maximumum time for password  |
^  m  |  sets minimum time  for password before you can change it  |
^  E  |  set a password expiration date  |
^  W  | how many warning days you get  |
^  I  |  how many days after your password expired you will be allowed to login using old password  |

example

<code>
chage -m 0 -M 90 -W 7 -I 14 sysadmin05
</code>

If you are trying to figurec out an epiration date use

<code>
[root@host ~]# date +%F 
2022-03-10
[root@host ~]# date -d "+30 days" +%F 
2022-04-09
</code>

To force and account to change password use

<code>
 chage -d 0 cloudadmin10
</code>

====usermod====

Usermod can also be used to affect a users login


^  option  ^  what it does  ^
^  L  | this will lock a users account  |
^  -s /sbin/nologin  | will not give a user a bash shell  |