exclude user from password policy?

[Anne]

Ed, worked like a charm! 

Thanks!

Anne 


-----Original Message-----
From: egf at riskproof.no-ip.org [mailto:egf at riskproof.no-ip.org]
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:17 AM
To: diabeticithink at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: exclude user from password policy? 

Anne,

What you want is the command: <faillog>

And, for excluding "root" from the 5 failure policy, the command would be:

    faillog -u root -m 0

regards,

ed
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