4.2.2.24. ExpireDate

4.2.2.24.1. Synopsis

This tag permit to set an expiration date time on a parent tag, which means users won’t be allowed to connecte after the defined date and time. The date and time should be in strftime format (man 3 strftime). You can test date format using date command:

$ echo $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
2014-08-15 15:21:19

4.2.2.24.2. Options

Name Default Values Since version Context
ExpireDate null (unlimited) %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S 1.0 Default,Group,IpRange,User,VirtualHost

4.2.2.24.3. Examples

In this example, we want to set a group of users expiration:

<Default>
    Home /home
</Default>

<Group users>
    ExpireDate "2015-12-25 00:00:00"
</User>

The users group will expire on 25 december 2015 at midnight.