topic Re: System Default Inactive Time Setting in Operating System - HP-UX

System Default Inactive Time Setting

Nellian Solaiappan — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:20:41 GMT

Hi
I'm trying to write a script that returns a list of users along with their Inactive Time, Password Expirty Time, Password Life time etc. I can do that using getprpw command and the respective -m options. But for cases where I get a -1, it actually means that the entry was not found in the database and which in turn I assume, means that the user takes the setting from system default.
My question now, is how can i get system default settings like Inactive period, password life etc through commandline.

Regards
Nell

Re: System Default Inactive Time Setting

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:33:53 GMT

Those data are stored in /tcb/files/auth/system/default.

Re: System Default Inactive Time Setting

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:34:28 GMT

Hi,

Correct -1 is default.

exptm = Password Expiration Time (default is 180 days)
lftm = Password Life time (default is 210 days)
expwarn = Password Expiration Warning Time (default is 21 days)
mintm = Time between password changes (default is 60 days)

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

Re: System Default Inactive Time Setting

Nellian Solaiappan — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:40:35 GMT

Hi
I did find the system default values, even before I started this thread,in the /tcb/files/auth/system/default file. But I dont have a direct answer to my question in that file since the entry that im concerned with is
:u_llogin#7776000 which is how the value 90 is represented. How can read this value from the file into meaningful number of days.

Regards
Nellian

Re: System Default Inactive Time Setting

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:49:47 GMT

7776000 / (24X60X60) = 90 days

nuber of seconds / seconds per day

Robert-Jan

Re: System Default Inactive Time Setting

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:50:54 GMT

The value you list is in seconds so simply take the value and divide it by the number of seconds per day (24 * 60 * 60) = 86400

In your example:
7776000 / 86400 = 90

Other time values are stored as the number of seconds since 1-1-1970 00:00:00 UCT (epoch seconds). To cenvert these:
perl -e 'print scalar localtime(xxxxxx)'
where xxxxxx is the epoch seconds value.

Re: System Default Inactive Time Setting

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:02:58 GMT

Hi Nell,

There is an example of a script, check below page.

Trusted system - How to find user's passwords about to expire
Document id: USECKBAN00000934

US
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000074740865

Europe
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000074740865

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: System Default Inactive Time Setting

Nellian Solaiappan — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:37:25 GMT

Thank you Clay and Robert! you guys are wonderful. I did the conversion of secs in my script and it works fine.