Your organization’s policy mandates that user accounts be disabled exactly 10 days after their credentials expire. Which directive in /etc/login.defs should be set to 10 to satisfy this requirement?
The INACTIVE setting defines the number of days following password expiration that an account remains usable before it is disabled. PASS_MAX_DAYS sets how long a password is valid but does not disable the account. PASS_WARN_AGE determines how many days before expiration users receive warnings. UMASK controls default file creation permissions and is unrelated to account expiration.
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