Re: Password Expiration on 5.2

Rather than changing each user, change the default user stanza in
/etc/security/user. It will apply to all users unless they have an override
value..

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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Green,
Simon
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:16 AM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Password Expiration on 5.2


No!
You want the MAX. AGE parameter. That's in weeks, so either 4 or 5 for a month.

"Weeks between password EXPIRATION and LOCKOUT" means that after a password
expires, if it hasn't been updated 4 weeks later the userid gets locked, so it
can't be used at all - not even to set a new password - until an administrator
unlocks it.

If you've got a lot of users to co it's probably easier to use the chuser
command.
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Larry Scheetz
Sent: 29 June 2006 15:18
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Password Expiration on 5.2


Admins,

I am trying to setup all user to have their password expire every 30
days. I have made two changes in "smit passwdattrs" and they are below. I want
to make sure that the system will expire a user's password every month (30 days)
and it will warn them 3 days before it is going to expire. Would the below
changes be correct? Looks like the default Weeks between Expiration was -1.
Any help would be appreciated.



Days to WARN USER before password expires [3]

Weeks between password EXPIRATION and LOCKOUT [4]

Thanks Larry


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