chage incorrect date parsing

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Depending on the input chage silently takes wrong values:

[root@host]# chage -d '15 Jan 2013' root
[root@host]# chage -l root
Last password change                                    : Jan 15, 2013

[root@host]# chage -d 'Jan 15 2013' root
[root@host]# chage -l root
Last password change                                    : Jan 16, 2013

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, 7
  • shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-13.el6
  • shadow-utils-4.1.5.1-13.el7

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