topic Re: Untrusted password expired in Operating System - HP-UX

Untrusted password expired

LJenkins — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:33:03 GMT

I have a problem to disable the password expiration in an untrusted server, I know how to do that in trusted server but not in untrusted server, could you please help me to set root password never expired.

Re: Untrusted password expired

F Verschuren — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:48:26 GMT

in the hostfile the passwd string will have a aditional ,??,? part, if you remove this part of the passwd string in the passwd file your aging is removed.

Re: Untrusted password expired

Jose luis Martinez Esca — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:54:50 GMT

Hi

first you need to know some attributes of the user account. you can get them with the command

passwd -s user_acount

with the output you will see the min and max life time of the account. To avoid the expiration time you can use the next command

passwd -n 0 -x 0 user_acount

after press enter you can sse the next message
argument rounded up to nearest week
argument rounded up to nearest week

this is an informative messege. you can check your user account with the command

passwd -s user_acount

you will see something like this

prueba2 PS 01/12/09 0 0

now you only need to reset the passwd and you wont see the expiration time

passwd -s prueba2

prueba2 PS

atte: ch2

Re: Untrusted password expired

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:06:43 GMT

Shalom,

You should be able to use sam to select and individual user, even root and set it to not expire.

Its a menu option.

It might cause you problems on your next security audit, but its straightforward to do the change.

SEP