Bug#304934: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#304934: passwd: please add command line option to override PASS_MAX_DAYS

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 09:46:52PM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> I think "-e" option should just have higher priority
> than PASS_MAX_DAYS.

-e seems to set a different field in /etc/shadow and so does something
different. Additionally, -e insisting on a date seems to make it
impossible to set the default of "99999" if it has been overridden
from login.defs.

Greetings
Marc

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