Password Settings

[James_409]

I can not find where the password settings are located on HP-UX trusted and non trusted systems. There is no /etc/default/security file on either of them. Does anyone have an idea. I've been looking all over the place and everyplace says to look at the security file. But it DOES NOT EXIST. Please help me.

[RAC_1]

What password settings you are talking about??
The file /etc/default/security is used to add some more security features and works with trusted and no-trusted systems. IT was introduced through a patch. man 4 security for details.

Anil

[James_409]

A little background info. I just want to confirm min_length, min_age, max_age, etc.... Also, only a few users have the "mMWW" thing going on in /etc/passwd. Is there a reason for this?

[RAC_1]

On non-trusted systems, there are few options available to you to control passowrd length, combination of the password. When there is additional thing to encrypted to password, it means some options are set. man passwd.

You can set one option at a time and you will see that it addds cerain letters to encrypted pass. -n denotes min days, -x denotes password lifetime etc.

Anil

[James_409]

I understand the whole "HASH,mMWW" min_age, max_age, last time changed from Thursday 1/1/1970 with using the base 64 numbers, but only 25% of the users in /etc/passwd have those defined. I was just wondering if there's a global setting somewhere or if there is just one not defined at all. Isn't the default for 10.2 and below min_length=6, max_length=8? Thanks for all your help so far.

[RAC_1]

I do not know if there are default settings for min time, max time etc. As far as I know, they are not set by default. You may look at
passwd -s "user_name" to know what is set fot a user. passwd -as will give details for all users.

Anil

[Ken Penland_1 · Accepted solution]

on trusted systems look in the file:

/tcb/files/auth/system/default