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

Password Settings

Jim92900 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:12:27 GMT

Where to look for the default password settings on machine.

Settings like:

1. Password length

2. Maxweek

3. Minweek

4. Number of times the system allows to enter password for a failed password.

Jim

Re: Password Settings

Pete Randall — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:17:20 GMT

passwd -s (name) will give you what you want, I think. From the man page:

-s name Display some password attributes associated with the specified name. Superuser privilege and non-trusted mode is required if the files repository is specified.The format of the display will be:
name status mm/dd/yy min max warn

Pete

Re: Password Settings

Sundar_7 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:21:23 GMT

Jim,

Is your system trusted or nottrusted ?

If your system is not trusted, then you know the items 2, 3 and 4 are not applicable to begin with.

If your system is trusted, then you can use the following commands to gather the info

# /usr/lbin/getprdef

==> this is system wide settings

# /usr/lbin/getprpw

==> individual user settings

You can define some of these parameters in /etc/default/security as well.

Refer manpage of prpwd for the description of the fields in the output of above commands

Sundar.

Re: Password Settings

Jim92900 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:21:43 GMT

Pete:

I think, what i wanted is on the system level how to find out the above...like lenght of password...Maxweek for password...

Jim

Re: Password Settings

Aussan — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:35:50 GMT

here is a document that can help you

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000079990873