Password History not configured

[Belinda Dermody]

I just Installed HP-UX11 on my H50 system from 10.20. I was using a trusted system on 10.20 and converted to a trusted system after installation on 11. I copied over all the tcb files. When I go in an change passwords for users I get the following message on the screen.

Password history is not configured in the /etc/default/security file. Default password history depth 1 is used

I can not find any information about this. I have gone through sam and did my password aging stuff.

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

Hi James,

Check this out:

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=65c2ebd91d19442502/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000048117924

HTH,
Shiju

[S.K. Chan]

From Technical DB ..

To enable the password history feature, the system administrator should create a file (or open the file if it already exists) named /etc/default/security and append to it one line containing:
PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH=number
The line contains three keywords: PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH, =, and a decimal number which is the desired depth for the password history check. If the number is 2, the user's new password will be checked against two previously used passwords.

[Ceesjan van Hattum]

Hi,

Discover UnixAdm.net:
http://www.unixadm.net/howto/etc-security.html
gives you the list of all nice parameters. It is not so difficult as it seems.

Greetings,
Ceesjan