Password Recovery

[candyman_1]

Hi all,

I have a trusted system and all the passwords has been expired. I need to restore all the passwords again. what all steps i need to take here. its hp-ux 11.11.

Thanks

Candyman

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom Candy,

You would need to run a root script.

make a list of users

while read -r username
do
passwd -d $username
passwd -f $username
done < list

SEP

[candyman_1]

Hi steven..

I have a full system backup.... can I restore the /tcb direcory? will that work.

[candyman_1]

Hi,

This as actually done duu to system was changed to untrusted from trusted and back to trusted system.... this expired all the passwords. but will the restore of /tcb directory restore the old passwords? cuz i need the old passwords to be restored.

Thanks

candyman

[rajdev]

Hi,

I think the passwords have expired as you change to trusted system.

you can run following command to disable the password expiry/aging

#/usr/lbin/modprpw -m mintm=0,exptm=0,lftm=0 username

Run for one user and if its ok, then you can do the same for other users.

once everything is fine, you may again want to enable the password aging, see modprpw manpage for the details.

Regards,

[Bill Hassell]

This is absolutely normal (all passwords expire when converting to Trusted) and there is an ultra-simple fix:

/usr/lbin/modprpw -V

That's UPPERCASE V. When SAM does the conversion, this step is done automatically. Note that the passwords are still the same, only the expiration time is refreshed. man modprpw