topic Re: Setting password history on hp-11x servers in Operating System - HP-UX

Setting password history on hp-11x servers

m davidson_1 — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:54:35 GMT

Does anybody know how to set the password history on hp-11x servers. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Re: Setting password history on hp-11x servers

Christopher McCray_1 — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:56:35 GMT

Hello,

There is a file, /etc/defautlt/security.

edit this file and add:

PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH=10 (10 is what I have)

Hope this helps

Chris

Re: Setting password history on hp-11x servers

Sajid_1 — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:59:20 GMT

hello,

The file name is /etc/default/security. This document will help you better - http://support2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000048117924

Doc ID - KBRC00000915

Re: Setting password history on hp-11x servers

Christopher McCray_1 — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:03:48 GMT

Also check out this doc:

http://support1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000058669506

Enjoy

Chris

Re: Setting password history on hp-11x servers

Sean OB_1 — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:39:44 GMT

Edit the following file:

/etc/defautlt/security

add/modify this entry as needed.
PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH=nn

where nn is the number of passwords you want kept.

Re: Setting password history on hp-11x servers

Bill Hassell — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:42:04 GMT

NOTE: /etc/default/security *requires* the latest PAM/authentication/security patch. For 11.0: PHCO_25527 and PHCO_25590, for 11i: PHCO_24839 and PHCO_25526. Since they are PHCO patches, they won't require a reboot.

Additionally, these patches add features to non-trusted as well as trusted systems:

MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH=
PASSWORD_MIN_LOWER_CASE_CHARS=
PASSWORD_MIN_UPPER_CASE_CHARS=
PASSWORD_MIN_DIGIT_CHARS=
PASSWORD_MIN_SPECIAL_CHARS=
ABORT_LOGIN_ON_MISSING_HOMEDIR=<0/1>
NOLOGIN=<0/1>
NUMBER_OF_LOGINS_ALLOWED=<0/10>
SU_ROOT_GROUP=
SU_DEFAULT_PATH=

Note that 11.0 probably does not have the man page "security" yet, even though the patch supplies the features, and it appears that 11i may not have all the security file features documented. Check the patch README for the details.