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Lab 005: Linux User Expiry

Requirements​

A developer named rose has been assigned Nautilus project temporarily as a backup resource. As a temporary resource for this project, we need a temporary user for rose. It’s a good idea to create a user with an expiration date so that the user won't be able to access servers beyond that point.

Therefore, create a user named rose on the App Server 1 in Stratos Datacenter. Set expiry date to 2021-01-28. Make sure the user is created as per standard and is in lowercase.

Note

This lab demonstrates setting account expiry dates for temporary user accounts.

Prerequisites​

  • SSH access to App Server 1 with root or sudo privileges.
  • User management tools available (useradd, chage).

Steps​

Login to the app server and switch to root. For the server credentials, check out the Project Nautilus documentation.

sshpass -p  '*******' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no tony@172.16.238.10
sudo su -
*******  
[root@stapp01 ~]# useradd -e 2021-01-28 rose 
[root@stapp01 ~]# chage -l rose  
Last password change                                    : Jul 26, 2023
Password expires                                        : never
Password inactive                                       : never
Account expires                                         : Jan 28, 2021
Minimum number of days between password change          : 0
Maximum number of days between password change          : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7

Verification​

  • Confirm user rose exists with id rose.
  • Confirm expiry date is set with chage -l rose.
  • Confirm account expiry date shows Jan 28, 2021.

Resources​