On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 13:28, Kapil Khanna wrote:
> On RH 7.2 the following useradd command always returns invalid date.
> 
> useradd -e 2099-01-01 -g <gname> -p <password> username
> also tried 
> useradd -e "2099-01-01" -g <gname> -p <password> username
> 
> on running man useradd for the -e option this is what it says
> The date on which the user  account  will  be  dis­abled.   The  date is
> specified in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
> What am i doing wrong? Any clues?
> 

32 bit *nixes like linux cannot understand dates past Jan 2038 or
something like that.

Bret



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