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A message similar to the following appears:
message sent to levy
Use the less than (<) and greater than (>) operators to specify whether you want to list
people who last changed their password before (<) or after (>) a certain date.
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When metacharacters— | & ; ( ) < > space or tab— or control operators—|| & && ; ;; ( ) |
<newline> are used in a command string threy must be escaped with a backslash character.
The following are some examples:
list passchg\<05JUL2009 u — This produces a list of all users who last changed their
password before July 5, 2009.
list passchg\>10. u — This produces a list of users who have changed their password
after 10 days ago (that is, within the last 10 days).
You can also use
list u to list people who last changed their passwords sometime between
two dates, such as between June 15, 2009 and July 1, 2009. You can even use this command
to check a single user or a group of users.
To the aforementioned, use this format of the list command:
list passchg\>date1\<date2 u [<user or group names>]
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The date1 and date2 parameters are not surrounded with greater than and less than
characters here as is customary for parameters. These characters are also used in the
command alone, and this could cause confusion.
You must follow passchg with a date. This date may be a relative date, an absolute date, or a
date range. Also, there must be no spaces between passchg and the date or date range, or the
list u command does not work correctly.
A relative date is one that you specify as some time prior to the present date, as in
list passchg\<90. u . In the previous example, we used a relative date to find out which
users had last changed their password prior to 90 days ago. Remember, ending the number
with a period (
. ) indicates that the value is in days; no period indicates hours.
An absolute date specifies an actual calendar date. In the following example, we use an
absolute date to find out which users last changed their passwords before August 5, 2009, by
typing the following:
list passchg\<05AUG2009 u