how to re use the same password again? in HP-UX

[bullz]

Hello Guruz,

I am unable to use the same password as password policy is not allwing me :(

Below message i am geting wen i trying to reset the password.

You may not re-use a previously used password.

[Rita C Workman]

If your security has been setup to thwart the repeating of passwords, then as a user you can't.

You can ask your UNIX Admin to set it to that again, but my guess is they are trying to stop this bad security habit.

Just a thought,
Rita

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

:-) Hi bullz,

Policies are there for a reason, if you are the sys admin and you set the policy you can overwrite the policy, if you are a user then you can not. Re-using passwords is unsafe and it goes against company security policies.

If you are the sys admin, and still want to go that route, you could check the /etc/default/security file for settings on this.

Regards,

Jaime.

[Raj D. · Accepted solution]

bullz ,

Try this to keep the same password,
(with this password policy will not restrict . )

#/sbin/passwd username


Cool!,


Cheers,
Raj.

[bullz]

Thank you so much raj... Issue is resolved.
Very easy option :)

But what is differnce b/w passwd and /sbin/passwd ?

[Raj D.]

bullz,

Yes /sbin/passwd & /usr/bin/passwd are different and having different size:
/sbin commands are much low level command and can be available for single user mode as well, they do not have any shared library components.

Whereas /usr/bin/passwd is dynamically linked and need the shared libraries (/usr/lib)and thats why it looks for the password policy per the security settings .


Cheers.
Raj.

[bullz]

Cool