topic Re: Password Aging in Operating System - HP-UX

Password Aging

Abubakkar — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:50:12 GMT

How to set password aging?. if i want expire passwd on with in two days.Kindly expain syntax.

Re: Password Aging

Ahmed Douban — Mon, 16 May 2011 08:48:27 GMT

as root

# usermod -e mm/dd/yy username

-e used to change the user expiration date

-e will only work if you have shadow file

for password aging

# passwd -n 7 -x 70 -w 14 username

-n user cannot change his password after this defined period

-x password expire after this period

-w warning period

Re: Password Aging

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:35:31 GMT

it might be useful for you:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/passwd-aging-and-forcing-passwd-change-doesn-t-work-at-all/m-p/5157398#M455742

Re: Password Aging

Wilfred Chau_1 — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:17:21 GMT

This should have all info you need:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Security/Passwords-non-expiring/m-p/2889759#M5053

Re: Password Aging

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Tue, 17 May 2011 06:29:39 GMT

Additionally if you want to disable password aging just use passwd to create new password:
# passwd denee
Changing password for denee
New password:
Re-enter new password:
Passwd successfully changed
# logins -x -l denee
denee 120 users 20 ,,,
/home/denee
/usr/bin/sh
PS 000000 -1 -1 -1
password aging is disabled now in untrusted system.
just add user can change the password after 7 days :
# passwd -n 1 denee
argument rounded up to nearest week
# logins -x -l denee
denee 120 users 20 ,,,
/home/denee
/usr/bin/sh
PS 051211 7 0 -1
aware of that you can see the date modified only if you put this option.

Re: Password Aging

Dennis Handly — Sun, 22 May 2011 09:31:29 GMT

Do you have a trusted system?
If not, you only have granularity in terms of weeks.

Re: Password Aging

Ismail Azad — Sun, 22 May 2011 18:27:08 GMT

Hey AbuBakkar,

Rememember you have to be in shadow mode for this and it requires the execution of pwconv if you are in standard passwd mode. As mentioned just specify the expiry date.

Regards
Ismail Azad