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[jsahibjon]

User asking two time password to type on hpux

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

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@jsahibjon wrote:

User asking two time password to type on hpux

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And so the question is?

I assume that the user is being asked to change the password or that the user has requested to change the password.  In either case, this is normal behavior --- to confirm the old password and to confirm the new password *twice* to make sure you know what you are doing,

...JRF...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The default behavior of the OS is to request password changes be typed in twice.

This has been proven to reduce passwords being forgotten in statistical studies.

SEP

[jsahibjon]

for particular user asking every login its asking two times to enter the passwd

[DeafFrog]

HI jsahibjon ,

Welcome to forum.

This is a normal feature with any operating system.Usually when you provide an incorrect password , the system will prompt for password agian , before finally terminating you login attempt and locking your account ( these are configurable ) .Also , you need to supply your string twice , when changing the password . If your case exclude these 2 cases , pls post .

Regards,

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Perhaps the password is not being updated.

pwck

Look for issues and report back.

Consider manually changing the user password with root user if permitted by security policy.

SEP

[jsahibjon]

we have reset the user password to new one and enable the user account with modprpw , we have tried to login with user name and new password again its asking the passwd.

[Dennis Handly]

>User asking two time password to type on hpux

You might want to look at lastb(1) to see if there were any stray initial chars in the bad password?

[V. Nyga]

Also - the password may not be longer than 8 signs (if I remember right).
So try a short password ...

V.

[Arunabha Banerjee]

Please share the following command output for further diagnosis.

# grep -v ^# /etc/default/security

# cat /tcb/files/auth/system/default

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -l username

Try the below two command and see if it is working or not

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -k username

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -v username

[Arunabha Banerjee]

And one more thing please let me know if you are using any special character in your password or not.

If possible try to avoid this @ special character in your password.