Re: Can Solaris 9 remember some number of old passwords?

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: 17 Jan 2005 19:44:15 GMT

Martin Paul <map@par.univie.ac.at> writes:

>Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>> Currently, this func-
>> tionality is enforced only for user
>> accounts defined in the "files" name
>> service (local passwd(4)/shadow(4)).
>>
>> One more reason to upgrade to Solaris 10 :-)

>Hm, I guess for a lot (or most) systems the restriction to /etc files
>to use that feature will be a show-stopper, though.

I'm sure that other authentication services offer similar
features (in LDAP, it would be part of the LDAP server)

Casper 

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