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Asked: 2020-02-22 14:56:45 +0800 CST

How to undo usermod -e?

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I am using Ubuntu 18.04.

I used the command 

usermod -e YYYY_MM_DD user

Now, the user's account is expired.

What command can I put in order to remove the expiration date on the user account?

command-line

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  1. Best Answer

    You can undo it by running usermod -e again, this time passing an empty string in place of the EXPIRE_DATE string ex.

    sudo usermod -e '' user

    From man usermod:

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

       An empty EXPIRE_DATE argument will disable the expiration of the
       account.
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