topic Re: password issue in Operating System - HP-UX

password issue

Mirror breaking — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:59:57 GMT

Hi Friends,
Its a crazy issue.
In my BW server.
let say my password is india2008.
but when i log into the server and type the password india200a or india2005 or any other key then it allows me to login.does it possible?
and why this problem coming and how to fix it.
thanks and regards
Ankit Agrawal

Re: password issue

Dennis Handly — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:27:09 GMT

The maximum password size is 8 bytes.
Changing this may require converting to trusted or other complicated things.

Re: password issue

Asif Sharif — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:43:52 GMT

Hi Agrawal,

Standard password length is 8 characters only, even if it is more than 8 characters, system will consider only the first 8 characters and rest will be ignored.

Regards,
Asif Sharif

Re: password issue

Avinash20 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:20:53 GMT

# man passwd
Password Construction Requirements
Passwords must be constructed to meet the following requirements:

+ On an untrusted system, only the first eight characters of a password are significant.

If you like to use the password of more than 8 characters, you need to change the server is Trusted system

# /usr/lbin/tsconvert
or
Use
# sam
Auditing and Security
System Security Policies

>> This will ask you to change the server to trusted system

NOTE: The users will have to change the password since password policies will be applied automatically to all the users

Please change the password of root user after changing the server to Trusted system

Refer to http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90121/ch02s06.html

Check for Max Password length

Refer to the following doc for more information on Trusted System

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90950/ch08s08.html