-----Original Message-----
From: egf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:egf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:17 AM
To: diabeticithink@xxxxxxxxx
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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