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

changing password

madhudeepan — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:52:21 GMT

passwd rjp
Changing password for rjp
Old password:
Sorry: < 1 weeks since the last change

system is not trusted,,, so from where it fetches this message

I am running in home dir and not as root

Re: changing password

Sunny123_1 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:23:13 GMT

Hi

Check if there any etc/default file exists or not if yes then post the output here.

Regards
Sunny

Re: changing password

Steven Schweda — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:02:55 GMT

> [...] etc/default file [...]

Or, as "man 1 passwd" suggests:

[...]
Default values may be set in the /etc/default/security file for the -n min, -x max,
and -w warn options. See security(4). The attributes to select password aging defaults are:

PASSWORD_MINDAYS

PASSWORD_MAXDAYS

PASSWORD_WARNDAYS
[...]

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/passwd.1.html

It might help a little if you revealed your
OS version. "uname -a" is pretty easy to do.

Trouble with "passwd"? "man passwd" is also
pretty easy to do.

Re: changing password

SoorajCleris — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:57:48 GMT

Hi,

You have assigned points to 23 of 315 responses to my questions.

FYI

Re: changing password

Dennis Handly — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:23:44 GMT

>so from where it fetches this message

You have password aging. What does this show?
grep rjp /etc/passwd

Anything after a "," in the password field indicates aging info.