Day 2/100 of DevOps

Task: Create a user named “jim” on App Server. Set the expiry date to 2024-02-17, ensuring the user is created in lowercase as per standard protocol.

1. SSH into App Server

   ssh tony@stapp03

2. Check if the user is already present or not.

   id jim

3. Switch to root user

   sudo -i or sudo su -

4. Create/ Add the user and verify it with usind id command

   useradd jim

   id jim

5. Use chage command with -l

   Chage command is used for monitoring and changing the user password expiry date.

   -l option lists all current password aging details of a user.

   Here, the account expires is never.

6. To set the expiry for the user

   chage -E 2024-02-17 jim

   Now, again verify using chage -l command:

   chage -l jim

   Now, you can see Account Expires has been changed to the mentioned date.

Note: You can use chage -help command to see other options that can be used with chage command.