Password not to be expired

[Somnath Chatterjee]

How to have one specific password and it is never supposed to expire. Is there any way to keep it alive and make sure it is marked as not aging or not expire.
Its for a HP9000 "not trusted" machine.

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
if you use SAM you can edit the behaviour of the password ageing etc for the account.

Select the user, use "Action Modify" and your "Modify Password Options" will allow you to do it.

[Somnath Chatterjee]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.

Can I use sam from normal user mode or is it mandatory to have superuser privilege to use SAM ??? I have normal $ access.

[Patrick Wallek]

Typically you have to be root to run sam.

The one exception is if your administrator has set up "restricted sam" access for you.

You can try this:

$ /usr/sbin/sam

If you have not been set up with restricted sam access, then this will fail and you will get a message like "Sorry, you must have superuser (root) privilege to enter sam."

[gstonian]

If you don't have root or restricted SAM access then you'll have sk your admin to go into sam for you and set the default expire to disabled.

[Somnath Chatterjee]

Thanks for all the comment ....
It really helped