To view the properties of an existing user, click on the
Users tab, select the user from the user
list, and click Properties from the menu
(or choose => from the pulldown menu). A window
similar to Figure
33-3 appears.
The User Properties window is divided
into multiple tabbed pages:
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User Data — Shows the basic user
information configured when you added the user. Use this tab to
change the user's full name, password, home directory, or login
shell.
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Account Info — Select Enable account expiration if you want the account
to expire on a certain date. Enter the date in the provided fields.
Select User account is locked to lock the
user account so that the user cannot log in to the system.
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Password Info — This tab shows the
date that the user's password last changed. To force the user to
change passwords after a certain number of days, select Enable password expiration. The number of days
before the user's password expires, the number of days before the
user is warned to change passwords, and days before the account
becomes inactive can also be changed.
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Groups — Select the groups that
you want the user to be a member of and the user's primary
group.
