| #### Account Lifespan The account lifespan that you set determines the period during which the accounts for a specific organization or the registry as a whole are valid. After the period of time passes, the accounts become invalid and must be recreated. You define the account lifespan as the dcecp acctlife attribute in the following form: acctlife {time | unlimited} where time is a number that indicates the number of days the account is valid, and unlimited specifies an unlimited lifespan. An account's lifespan is also controlled by the account expiration date (expdate attribute) that you set when you use the dcecp account create or account modify command to create or change an account. If you set an account expiration date that is in conflict with the account lifespan policy, the stricter setting applies. For example, if you set the standard policy account lifespan to 40 days, and then you set an account expiration date to the next day, the account expires on the next day because that is the stricter setting. Note: You can control the validity of accounts at a more immediate level by using the dcecp account modify command to mark the accounts as invalid (acctvalid attribute). ####