Linux Crash Course - User Account & Password Expiration

Keeping track of user accounts is very important, especially as a Linux server administrator. In this episode of Linux Crash Course, we'll explore user and password expiration. This will include examples regarding locking passwords, the chage command, and more! Thank you to Linode for sponsoring this video. Check them out and get your very own cloud server ➜ https://learnlinux.link/akamai 🐧 Visit the official LearnLinuxTV forums and hang out with fellow Penguins ➜ https://community.learnlinux.tv Support Learn Linux TV Note: Commission may be earned for any and all links presented here. Support me on Patreon and get early access to new content! ➜ https://learnlinux.link/patron Check out jay's latest book, Mastering Ubuntu Server 3rd Edition ➜ http://ubuntuserverbook.com Affiliate store for Linux compatible hardware/accessories ➜ https://learnlinux.link/amazon Check out the Tiny Pilot KVM for your Homelab ➜ https://learnlinux.link/tinypilot ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 Time Codes 00:00 - Intro 02:13 - The chage command 03:05 - Adding an expiration date for a user 04:36 - Checking user details with chage -l 05:49 - Reasoning for setting account expiration dates 06:26 - Setting an expiration date for a password 07:37 - Adding a minimum number of days between password changes 09:44 - Locking a user account 11:06 - Unlocking a user account Documentation Be sure to check out the blog post for this video here ➜ https://www.learnlinux.tv/?p=1076━━━━... 🎓 Learn Linux TV Your source for Linux-related Fun and Learning! https://www.learnlinux.tv https://community.learnlinux.tv https://learnlinux.link/jay ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Affiliate Notice Some of the links mentioned in this description are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, it helps keep the content flowing. https://www.learnlinux.tv/content-ethics ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Use Content Responsibly Learn Linux TV shares technical content intended to teach and help you, but it comes with no warranty. The channel is not liable for any damages from its use. Always ensure you have proper permissions, follow company policies, and comply with all applicable laws while working with technology. #Linux #LinuxCommands #Linux Crash Course