topic Re: hp-ux password policies on trusted systems in Operating System - HP-UX

hp-ux password policies on trusted systems

JOHN TURNER_2 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:02:12 GMT

Hello

im after some advice or info on how to go about setting up some password policies on a trusted hpux system.

The policies that i need to incorporate are:
minimum of 8 characters
need 3 of the 4 following elements:
numeric
uppercase alpha
lowercase alpha
special characters

Anyone got any thoughts on this

John

Re: hp-ux password policies on trusted systems

Pete Randall — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:10:38 GMT

John,

Have a look at the man page for security, in particular MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH, and PASSWORD_MIN__CHARS

Pete

Re: hp-ux password policies on trusted systems

Akram Shaik — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:11:46 GMT

Try man page for modprpw on your system.

Check out if that can help you out.

Re: hp-ux password policies on trusted systems

Court Campbell — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:13:11 GMT

The parameters that Pete mentioned will work. they go inside the file /etc/default/security. You can do a "man security" for more info.

Re: hp-ux password policies on trusted systems

Bill Hassell — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:35:21 GMT

SAM can set your global password policies, or you can create the file /etc/default/security with the parameters listed in the man page for secuirty. Attached is a heavily commented example security file. NOTE: /etc/default/security depends completely on patches to your OS, especially if your OS is older than 11.23. Many of the options simply don't work if you don't have the latest patches.