topic variables password in Operating System - HP-UX

variables password

Clodoaldo João Rodrigue — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:55:00 GMT

Hello ALL

I??d like know how can I discovery the password,s age. For Example: The user change his password ysterday, and then made 2 (two) days . How can I get this number ??
Thanks for all !!!

Re: variables password

Christopher Caldwell — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:00:12 GMT

If you use C (and trusted systems) try getprpwent.

Re: variables password

Wodisch_1 — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:47:28 GMT

Hi,

you would have to use "password aging" on all the users where you need to collect/keep that piece of information. See the man page for "passwd(1M)" for the details (options -n and -x, IIRC).
Then the week (since 1970, 1st of Jan) is stored in the third and fourth character followinf the comma in the second field in your "/etc/passwd"... (modulo 64, of course and coded like this: /=0 .=1 0=2 ..9=11 A=12 .. z=63, again IIRC).

HTH,
Wodisch

Re: variables password

Roger Baptiste — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:55:42 GMT

hi,

you can try /usr/lbin/getprpw userid
and look for spwchg field in the output for the last password change.

HTH
raj

Re: variables password

Michael Tully — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:58:38 GMT

If your system is trusted there are a few things you could look at.

last successful password change time
# /usr/lbin/getprpw -r -m spwchg fredb
Mon Jun 17 10:20:56 2002

Password expiry in days
# /usr/lbin/getprpw -r -m exptm fredb
3

Have a look at the man pages for this from this link:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xebf46c96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

HTH
Michael

Re: variables password

Ian Kidd_1 — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:09:36 GMT

If you have password aging, passwd -s {username} will give the date of the last successful change (3rd field). This won't work on 10.20, though.

Re: variables password

Fragon — Tue, 23 Jul 2002 05:27:38 GMT

By the way, you can not find back your password in HP-UX.

live as you wish
ux

Re: variables password

Ralph Grothe — Tue, 23 Jul 2002 06:22:54 GMT

Just to foster the use of Perl,
the getpw* functions of the C lib are also available in Perl

e.g.

perl -e '$expire = (getpwuid 0)[9];printf "expiration for root: %s\n"
, defined $expire ? $expire : "not set"'

At the shell type for instance

perldoc -f getpwnam

to find out more...

Re: variables password

Clodoaldo João Rodrigue — Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:08:33 GMT

Is there some form to made a replication from /etc/passwd??
Because, we have 8 severs, and some users have user id in all servers.
PS: without use NIS.
Yhanks ???