topic Re: Password parameters on a NON-trusted 11.0 box in Operating System - HP-UX

Password parameters on a NON-trusted 11.0 box

AttilaDan — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:29:00 GMT

I need to find system parameters for length, characters etc. I remember that there was a file (other than /etc/default/security) that had these listed, but cannot find it in the cobwebbed corners of my memory. Help please......

Re: Password parameters on a NON-trusted 11.0 box

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:52:08 GMT

Hi:

The file (name) is indeed '/etc/default/security' but it wan't present in the early releases of 11.0 as I recall. If you don't have one, create it.

The various options that were enabled (within it) appeared in a series of patches. Most notabably:

PHCO_27721

PHCO_34806

Even if you have these patches, it is worth reading their patch notes.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Password parameters on a NON-trusted 11.0 box

AttilaDan — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:34:49 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply. This box will be retired soon, so I'm not doing more than I have to for it. But, it is still under the audit umbrella and I need to show what password limitations are in place.

Re: Password parameters on a NON-trusted 11.0 box

Pete Randall — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:04:30 GMT

Without /etc/default/security, the only limitations will be the defaults as explained in "man 4 passwd".

Re: Password parameters on a NON-trusted 11.0 box

member_unix — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:45:41 GMT

Please look file at below path.

/usr/newconfig/tcb/files/auth/system

Thx,