Password aging

[M. Tariq Ayub]

Hi,

I want to enable password aging for some users in HP-UX 11i. It is a life system. There are always some process running using these users. How can i change password aging of this users without stopping their processes.

[Mark Grant]

Changing password ageing won't hurt running applications unless these applications keep logging in. Once something is logged in, it doesn't need to authenticate its password until it logs out and wants to log in again.

Presumably your applications are started at boot time and are probably started as an "su" from root anyway, so they may well never log in and therefore never use the password.

[twang]

Hi,

Password should not affect running processes.

Hope this helps
twang

[Lee Tae-kyung]

#passwd -f -x 30 username
This command enables password aging.
Pls, refer to man pages

Good day~~

[M. Tariq Ayub]

Hi,

When i try to change password aging it is giving me the following message

Failed to modify user "medtest".
This user is currently logged in and therefore cannot be modified.

How can i change its password aging without hampering user or process.

[T G Manikandan]

Try using the command line.

[M. Tariq Ayub]

Hi,

I tried with command line. It works. I want to enable password aging of a user for 15 days from today but i donot want to expire his current password. Suppose i have changed my password 30 days back. now if i enable password aging to 15 days does my existing password expire. or will i get another 15 days. I need the second condition.

[F Verschuren]

on a trusted system, you can set the passwd change time to 0 by using:
/usr/lbin/modprpw -v $USEr