Enforcing Password Rules on AIX 1

[rogersam]

I am interested in options for enforcing password structure rules in AIX. Specifically we want to enforce length, composition (alpha and special chars), and some prohibitions such as "not = userid" (and a list of other prohibited values.)

Is there a good tool or recommended way to do this on AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5.1?

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

Check /etc/security/user and Chapter 4 of

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245962.html

 

[jwtesch]

It's as easy as 'smitty user' and then choosing a user to setup all of that.

 

[rogersam]

Thanks! The redbooks reference had just what we needed. It's been a while since I worked on technical implementation and I was sure we had done this with other AIX systems.