topic Re: NIS Question in Operating System - HP-UX

NIS Question

brian_31 — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:51:44 GMT

Hi Team:

We use NIS on 11.0. We want to implement Password Aging. What is the workaround? Also does NIS support /etc/default/security file so that we could implement PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH feature.We do not want to go trusted. Please Help.Thanks in Advance.

Cheers
Brian.

Re: NIS Question

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 18:05:38 GMT

Hi Brian,

Take a look at the thread below,

http://itrc.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=0bcecc61010ce0fc3a/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000024627294

http://itrc.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=f18899da0acd81f51f/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055653786

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: NIS Question

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 18:48:36 GMT

For information on the /etc/default/security file do a 'man security'.

From the security man page:

"The password history depth configuration is on a system basis and is supported in trusted system for users in files repository only. This feature does not support the users in NIS or NISPLUS repositories."

I also don't think there is an option in NIS for password aging.

Re: NIS Question

harry d brown jr — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:05:55 GMT

4.1: Miscellaneous Questions

Q: Does NIS support password aging?

A: No.

http://www.ebsinc.com/solaris/network/nis.html

But, NIS+ does!

live free or die
harry