topic Re: user administration in Operating System - HP-UX

user administration

jsahibjon — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:18:34 GMT

User asking two time password to type on hpux

Re: user administration

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:23:22 GMT

Hi:

@jsahibjon wrote:
User asking two time password to type on hpux

And so the question is?

I assume that the user is being asked to change the password or that the user has requested to change the password. In either case, this is normal behavior --- to confirm the old password and to confirm the new password *twice* to make sure you know what you are doing,

...JRF...

Re: user administration

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:24:27 GMT

Shalom,

The default behavior of the OS is to request password changes be typed in twice.

This has been proven to reduce passwords being forgotten in statistical studies.

SEP

Re: user administration

jsahibjon — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:25:57 GMT

for particular user asking every login its asking two times to enter the passwd

Re: user administration

DeafFrog — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:27:24 GMT

HI jsahibjon ,

Welcome to forum.

This is a normal feature with any operating system.Usually when you provide an incorrect password , the system will prompt for password agian , before finally terminating you login attempt and locking your account ( these are configurable ) .Also , you need to supply your string twice , when changing the password . If your case exclude these 2 cases , pls post .

Regards,

Re: user administration

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:57:34 GMT

Shalom,

Perhaps the password is not being updated.

pwck

Look for issues and report back.

Consider manually changing the user password with root user if permitted by security policy.

SEP

Re: user administration

jsahibjon — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:54:46 GMT

we have reset the user password to new one and enable the user account with modprpw , we have tried to login with user name and new password again its asking the passwd.

Re: user administration

Dennis Handly — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:35:13 GMT

>User asking two time password to type on hpux

You might want to look at lastb(1) to see if there were any stray initial chars in the bad password?

Re: user administration

V. Nyga — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:28:34 GMT

Also - the password may not be longer than 8 signs (if I remember right).
So try a short password ...

V.

Re: user administration

Arunabha Banerjee — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:34:22 GMT

Please share the following command output for further diagnosis.

# grep -v ^# /etc/default/security

# cat /tcb/files/auth/system/default

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -l username

Try the below two command and see if it is working or not

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -k username

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -v username

Re: user administration

Arunabha Banerjee — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:37:07 GMT

And one more thing please let me know if you are using any special character in your password or not.

If possible try to avoid this @ special character in your password.