HP-UX 11.31 User password change min days = 3

[jason_lee]

Johnson,
That's not error, I'm showing you, it is from the output of "man".

Anyways, I'm running as root & we don't have trusted system enabled. My point is, since the given command will only work for trusted system, so, no point for me to run it right?

Why did you ask me to run that command in the first place? What's the relation to the problem I have?

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

>>>>>>>Why did you ask me to run that command in the first place? What's the relation to the problem I have?<<<<<<<<<<<<

I thought was trusted system which you running my BAD,

what else did you tried ? after you changed "PASSWORD_MINDAYS=7" to 3?

[jason_lee]

It seems the PASSWORD_MINDAYS only applicable to /etc/shadow password. Sigh...I'm not sure what's the impact of converting to shadow password to the existing applications.

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

You Just need Answer, You broke heart :(

I hope you never go through docs which was attached above

[Dennis Handly]

>It is already set to 3. Why the new user's PASSWORD_MINDAYS=7?

If you are not trusted, the default is in units of weeks. 3 gets rounded up to 7.
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/passwd.4.html#d0e1054375

[OldSchool]

"It seems the PASSWORD_MINDAYS only applicable to /etc/shadow password. Sigh...I'm not sure what's the impact of converting to shadow password to the existing applications."

that's not correct. It should work with the std password file as well. The issue is that everything gets rounded to increments of 7 days.

try setting it to say, 10 days, and observe what happens. It will either reamin 7 or bump to 14 (I don't recall)