# 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`
    

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2. Check if the user is already present or not.
    
    `id jim`
    

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3. Switch to root user
    
    `sudo -i` or `sudo su -`
    

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

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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**.
    

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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.
    

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