Password expiry questions

[Managed Services]

With HP UX 11 and using the standard password database (ie. password stored in /etc/passwd file) the system changes over the password week each Thursday at 00:00 -- exactly as specified in documentation.

However, users logging in to the system are not required to change their passwords until Friday 00:00

This causes a conflict with one of our products, which calculates expiry based on the change of week and triggers a login in order to force a password change.

1) Is this behaviour by design, or a bug?
2) If a bug, is a patch available to resolve it?
3) If no patch, is it likely the behaviour will be changed in future?

Thanks!

[Steven E. Protter]

Seems this behavior is by design.

Run a passwd -sa report and take a look at expiration.

HP-UX can calculate expiration by week(standard
), but other options are available.

If you go to a trusted system you may be able to have the granularity you require.

Expiration calculation is based on data in the passwd -sa report as far as I remember.

Also: Make sure your system clock is running correctly or you have a valid ntp time source in ntp.conf and that XNTP in /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons is set to 1.

SEP

[Borislav Perkov]

Look this thread

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=974054