account and expired passwd

[navin]

Hi ,

I have an account which has the info as below.
So looks like the passwd expired.But user does not know the passwd .with out resetting the passwd , is there a way that i can make this account current.But there are lot of processes running in the system which is owned by this account - so if do any changes through sam - i get the message as account is active - so log off and do the change.
pls advice
# logins -xl yuana
yuana 200 users 20 YUANA,,,
/yuana
/usr/bin/ksh
PS 040209 0 91 -1

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

An account can be expired as follows:

* Converting a system to trusted (stretch but it does require a password update)
* running a passwd command changing the number of days to expire.
* Allowing time to pass.

What does the account say on a
passwd -sa
report?

You might be able to make the account current with the passwd command.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/passwd.1.html

passwd -x username

You will have to try it. I'm not up for turning on an HP-UX system today and turning my home office into an oven.

SEP

[OldSchool]

my question would be, "If the user doesn't know the passwd, what good does 'unexpiring' it do you in this case?"

[navin]

thanks for the reply.
Yuana PS 07/02/09 0 35

what does this mean?

Thanks

[Ganesan R]

Hi Navin,

Password expire doesn't make the account inactive. I am not sure what do you want to do with password expired account. You can always go to SAM and reset the password or modify the password without affecting running process owned by that account.

You can also use the commands to reactive the account.

# passwd user # Reactivate a user account
# passwd -d user1 # set a null password. In untrusted mode this unlocks/activates the user account if found locked/deactivated.

[Tingli]

Yuana PS 07/02/09 0 35
name status mm/dd/yy min max warn

The date shows the time of the last password reset.

PS: This account has a password.

[Nido]

Hello Navin,

>>>>Yuana PS 07/02/09 0 35
>>>>what does this mean?

The format of the display is:

name status mm/dd/yy min max warn

Status can be anything:
PS This account has a password.
NL This account is a no login account.
LK This account is locked account.
NP This account has no password and is therefore open without authentication.


Check man page for `passwd` for details.

Cheers!!

[navin]

Thanks for the reply.but using sam could not change the passwd attribute if the user id is logged in or running processes in that system.
there are some remote programs that use remsh to this system using this id and giving the error message that the [asswd is expired

[Tingli]

You can try to vi /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow (some risk!!) to modify it. Not highly recommended but if the sitaution is desperate...

[navin]

I still dont understand clearly what does the 0 35 mean

yuana PS 07/02/09 0 35

in the above output (passwd -sa)

pls advice

thanks to all

[Tingli]

0 means the minimum days before the user can reset the password after the password was reset. And 35 is the password life in days.

[anidil]

try passwd -x -1 yuana