Re: Root password expiration

Be careful and don't use an easily guessable password. Allow console-only root login. Use SU and SUDO to control superuser access (the latter is a better choice because it permits a more granular control) and protect their logs.Think twice about granting root privileges (know who has access, when and why).



Abraços,
Marlon Borba, CISSP.
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FBright@xxxxxxxxx 23/10/2006 16:07:23 >>>
Hi Larry,

Have you tried

chuser maxexpired="-1" root.

This sets the expiration to not expire.

HTH


Frank


Frank M. Bright
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Administrative Computing
University of the Arts (A15)
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Coll 17.0.14 AIX 5.2.0.7 Uni 6.1.15



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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Larry Scheetz
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:23 AM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Root password expiration



Admins,



In my default user settings I have the "Password MAX. AGE" set to 4. I
don't want this setting for the root account. If I want to root account
to not change automatically what would I set this to? I want to change
it on my own when needed. I am not sure what the default (no
expiration) would be.



Thx

Larry





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