Re: Password History

Joe Chasan wrote:
Any easy way to implement password history - e.g. user can't re-use last X
passwords, where X is a configurable parameter?

After an IT audit, auditors were surprised this was not implemented in
SCO OpenServer (6.0/mp2)

If you want thorough such control, upgrade to an OS smart enough to use Kerberos (which I'm not sure SCO has ever published), or use a Kerberized master password server with an NIS back end for SCO clients. Oddly, Solaris, Linux, and Active Directory from Windows can all do this. And oddly, Solaris's NIS requires real hand-massaging to prevent from causing system problems, even thogh Sun apparently invented it.
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