topic Re: Password aging in Operating System - HP-UX

Password aging

M. Tariq Ayub — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 03:46:57 GMT

Hi,

I want to enable password aging for some users in HP-UX 11i. It is a life system. There are always some process running using these users. How can i change password aging of this users without stopping their processes.

Re: Password aging

Mark Grant — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 03:51:08 GMT

Changing password ageing won't hurt running applications unless these applications keep logging in. Once something is logged in, it doesn't need to authenticate its password until it logs out and wants to log in again.

Presumably your applications are started at boot time and are probably started as an "su" from root anyway, so they may well never log in and therefore never use the password.

Re: Password aging

twang — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 03:55:12 GMT

Hi,

Password should not affect running processes.

Hope this helps
twang

Re: Password aging

Lee Tae-kyung — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 03:57:47 GMT

#passwd -f -x 30 username
This command enables password aging.
Pls, refer to man pages

Good day~~

Re: Password aging

M. Tariq Ayub — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:01:17 GMT

Hi,

When i try to change password aging it is giving me the following message

Failed to modify user "medtest".
This user is currently logged in and therefore cannot be modified.

How can i change its password aging without hampering user or process.

Re: Password aging

T G Manikandan — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:04:54 GMT

Try using the command line.

Re: Password aging

M. Tariq Ayub — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:15:35 GMT

Hi,

I tried with command line. It works. I want to enable password aging of a user for 15 days from today but i donot want to expire his current password. Suppose i have changed my password 30 days back. now if i enable password aging to 15 days does my existing password expire. or will i get another 15 days. I need the second condition.

Re: Password aging

F Verschuren — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:38:18 GMT

on a trusted system, you can set the passwd change time to 0 by using:
/usr/lbin/modprpw -v $USEr