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

[Marc Haber]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

when PASS_MAX_DAYS is set in login.defs, useradd creates accounts that
expires. This causes adduser to create _system_ accounts that expire,
which is bad.

Please provide a command line option for useradd so that adduser can
tell useradd to create a non-expiring account.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-zgserver
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.3.2.ds1-20     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules          0.76-22          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                0.76-22          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  login                   1:4.0.3-31sarge2 system login tools

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