Linux User Management: Configuring Password Aging

The security team for ABC company would like to enable password restrictions for a group of offshore consultants on a special project. They have asked you, as the systems administrator, to test the changes on the cloud_user user to verify the changes can be made.

Then set up the following password restrictions for the cloud_user user account:

• Give the user 7 days warning that a password change is required.
• Set the account to lock upon 60 days of inactivity after a password has expired
• Set the maximum days between password changes to 30.

Please use the lab environment for this exercise, and not the Cloud Playground. To gain root access, log into the lab environment with the cloud_user account and issue sudo -i.