password max days on an account set to 4294967295
Issue
We have been updating the password policy on some servers. And found some unix accounts may have the pass_max_days set to 4294967295 in the /etc/shadow file. This results in the account not being usable when PAM is set to use pam_passwdqc
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- shadow-utils
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