Getting around root password expiration - PowerProtect Data Manager

When I was teaching a PowerProtect Data Manager Admin class last week, one of the participants said they were running into a problem with root password expiring on the powerprotect data manager server every 90 days. He felt it was annoying especially in his test bed environment. If you are facing a similar scenario and want to get around that, here is what you have to do.. Simple 2 steps.

Step 1: You need to SSH (as root) to PPDM virtual appliance.

Step 2: Run the command 'sudo chage -M 99999 root'

AND Voila - the root password will not expire every 90 days.

Note: Use Caution while using this command as some environment require changing the password every so often, that frequency could be set in place of 99999 in the above command.

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