Re: password aging with solaris

[Jim Dodd <jd@jimd.csd.sgi.com>]

I thought about this after I sent my first email, but I should have said WHY it
would not work. The problem is that we the passwd aging expires, login uses the
passwd command to try and update the password. This will update the entry in
/etc/passwd, but since it is an NIS entry that is timing out there is no
/etc/passwd entry. So you get an error. To change passwords in NIS, the yppasswd
command needs to be used.

Will Kempf wrote:

> Jim Dodd wrote:
> >
> > Password aging does not work with NIS. If it works on HP's they had to modify
> > it. I am pretty sure, though not positive, that it does not work with Solaris.
> > The information that it works with SGI's IRIX 6.2 is incorrect. Password aging
> > does not work on any IRIX OS includeing the new 6.5.
>
> Although I haven't used it, with Admintool (UGH!) you can set Min change,
> Max change, Max Inactive password parameters. There is also a file called
> /etc/default/passwd with MAXWEEKS=, MINWEEKS=, and PASSLENGTH=6 parameters.
> Try fiddling with those.



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