How to determine when and why the password for a local user account expired unexpectedly

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Issue

  • The root password expired unexpectedly. How to find when exactly it expired? What procedures can be used to find what caused the expiration?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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