topic Re: Password Aging Email Notification in Operating System - HP-UX

Password Aging Email Notification

Jonathan Grymes — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:44:18 GMT

I have an HPUX 11i Ver 1 system, in trusted mode, with password aging enabled. Is there a way to configure the system to send email notifications to users when their password is about to expire , maybe a week prior to expiring or whatever.

Thanks,
Jon

Re: Password Aging Email Notification

Victor Fridyev — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:58:06 GMT

Hi,

Read
man passwd
passwd -r nisplus [-l] [-f] [-n min] [-w warn] [-x max] [-D domain]
name

-w warn Specify the number of days, warn, prior to the password
expiring when the user will be notified that the
password needs to be changed. This option is only
enabled when the system has been converted to a
trusted, secure system. Refer to the Managing Systems
and Workgroups manual for how to convert your HP-UX to
a trusted, secure system.

HTH

Re: Password Aging Email Notification

Juan M Leon — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:27:54 GMT

I will suggest to create a sub-routine on the /etc/profile to check how many days left before account password expires and do a mailx to the user, however you need to know or have registered somewhere the user e-mail address (for example : user@company.com)

Re: Password Aging Email Notification

AwadheshPandey — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:20:49 GMT

Check This thread...
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=9100
Cheers,

Awadhesh

Re: Password Aging Email Notification

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:03:40 GMT

Shalom,

Victors approach will work if you create a read loop for all users.

You might need some mail script assistance to finish Victor's script.

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

Its overkill but you can lift code out of it to actually send the email.

Trusted system is somewhat problematic because HP deprecated it in 11.31 and replaced it with a new add in product. So don't think about going trusted on 11.31 and don't rely on this approach on systems you plan to make trusted.

Hi to Victor, my minahel, working extra hard in Israel while I'm on vacation.

minahal=direct manager.

SEP

Re: Password Aging Email Notification

Arturo Galbiati — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:25:05 GMT

Hi Jon,
if you have pwage on your system you can use the attached script that notify by email.
HTH,
Art

N.B. PLease assign points!

Re: Password Aging Email Notification

Rafael Casero — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:42:59 GMT

I tried it in my HP-UX 11.2 and was not able to find /etc/shadow...

Also I had to change it for /sbin/bash to /sbin/sh.

Please helph