Add New User with Specific Expire Date

[nikolaymartin]

I want to add a user account to my linuxbox. But this user will have specific expire time which will be specified at the useradd definition.

[deanwebb]

Hey, good to hear from you again. You hadn't been around in a while, I was getting worried you'd been deleted or blocked as a spammer.

OK, so a temporary user... this is cool... I'll look that up...

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80968/how-can-i-create-automatically-expiring-user-accounts <-- first search result, betcha it's got the goods!

and daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, they quote the man page!

-e, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE
     The date on which the user account will be disabled. The date is
     specified in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

     If not specified, useradd will use the default expiry date specified
     by the EXPIRE variable in /etc/default/useradd, or an empty string
     (no expiry) by default.

To figure out the date in the future, date -d can give that info.

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