How to make passwords expire?

[penguin1]

We have an application running on our HP 9000 UNIX server. Users just click on an icon in Windows and it gives them a login prompt that I believe is a login to the UNIX box, but then launches the application once the login is correct. I would like to have user's passwords expire after a certain amount of days. How can I do this? The application is ROI/Manage 2000.

 

[rj5132]

One way to do this would be to turn your system into a Trusted System. This can also enable password generators, system auditing and a lot of other security features. To enable this go through SAM to Auditing and Security and select Audited Users. The system will then prompt you to change to a trusted system. I did this once on HPUX 10.20 and it was not that painful.

There may be other ways to do this also, but am not sure.

-Bob

 

[unixqueen]

Hi

You can do this on a per user basis, by editing the password file and using password aging.
At the end of the encrypted password string, add the following

,xy

where x is the number of weeks the password is valid, and y is the min number of weeks that must pass before the password can be changed.

There is a table which defines their values, this is

Value No of weeks
. 0
/ 1
0-9 2-11
A-Z 12-37
a-z 38-63

When you add a user in SAM, you can setup password aging under Password Options, I am not sure without checking whether you can do this in modification on an existing user.

Hope this helps
Queenie