How to force a password change on next login
How to force a password change on next login
Posted Aug 10, 2026 16:44 UTC (Mon) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117)In reply to: How to force a password change on next login by LionsPhil
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features
The date of account expiry is documented in shadow(5) as the 8th field.
That field is not deprecated.
I wish we could get rid of all date-handling code, but a little bit remains. Certainly simpler than it once was, though.