Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'd like to set up an account on a
linux server and make the account's password never expire. I'm
having difficulties figuring it out with the passwd man page.
Could someone please help me out?  share|improve this question
4 Answers 4  up vote 5 down vote accepted  To maximize password
expiration:  passwd -x 99999 username  To disable account
expiration:  usermod -e '' username  To do both with chage:
chage -E -1 -M -1 username  To set the system defaults, look at
/etc/default/useradd  share|improve this answer  Use chage
command:  chage -M -1 USERNAME share|improve this answer  You
want the chage command you just set the account minimum password
to a rediculously long time like 9999999999 days.  here is a
very good howto - http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/setting-off-
password-aging-expiration.html  share|improve this answer chage
has an explicit value for this behavior. See bindbn's answer for
example. –  Allen Nov 12 '13 at 17:55  The complete command to
mitigate any other previous