hp-ux password policies on trusted systems

[JOHN TURNER_2]

Hello

im after some advice or info on how to go about setting up some password policies on a trusted hpux system.

The policies that i need to incorporate are:
minimum of 8 characters
need 3 of the 4 following elements:
numeric
uppercase alpha
lowercase alpha
special characters

Anyone got any thoughts on this

John

[Pete Randall]

John,

Have a look at the man page for security, in particular MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH, and PASSWORD_MIN__CHARS


Pete

[Akram Shaik]

Try man page for modprpw on your system.

Check out if that can help you out.

[Court Campbell]

The parameters that Pete mentioned will work. they go inside the file /etc/default/security. You can do a "man security" for more info.

[Bill Hassell]

SAM can set your global password policies, or you can create the file /etc/default/security with the parameters listed in the man page for secuirty. Attached is a heavily commented example security file. NOTE: /etc/default/security depends completely on patches to your OS, especially if your OS is older than 11.23. Many of the options simply don't work if you don't have the latest patches.