EXPIRY(1)

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💅 EXPIRY(1) — like, the password-expiry check thingy

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Commands manual (section 1, iykyk), and it's literally about finding out whether your password has gone ✨stale✨ — and then doing something about it. Let's go.

🎀 NAME 🎀

expiry — check and enforce password expiration policy 🕰️

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

expiry option

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So the expiry command has basically two moods, and honestly? Relatable.

  • It checks (-c) the current password expiration
  • and it forces (-f) changes when required.

That's the whole vibe. And the best part — it is callable as a normal user command. No sudo drama, no "are you root tho", you can just run it. 🫶

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

The options which apply to the expiry command are:

  • -c, --check — check the password expiration of the current user. Just a little peek, no changes, very low-stakes. 👀
  • -f, --force — force a password change if the current user has an expired password. It's giving intervention. 😭
  • -h, --help — display help message and exit. The classic "what does this even do" button. 💀

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /etc/passwd — user account information.
  • /etc/shadow — secure user account information. (Yes, the ✨secure✨ one. Respect her privacy. 🙈)

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

passwd(5), shadow(5) — go read these next, they're the friends of this page fr fr.

ngl bestie, this one's short and sweet — but the facts are the facts, so remember: -c checks, -f forces, -h helps, and /etc/shadow is where the secrets live. 💜

🌸 okay that's the whole page!! brought to you by shadow-utils 4.18.0, dated 06/24/2025 — mwah, slay, periodt, go check your password 💅🎀

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