[Sunhelp] Disabling passwd aging

Gwyn Price gwyn.price at solect.com
Fri Jun 23 10:21:33 CDT 2000


see

/etc/default/passwd

and man passwd

sorry its been ages since I did this so I cant remember the exact syntax


there are min and max seetings in the default file that affect the aging

Gwyn

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kyle Freestone [mailto:kyle at rawah.co.larimer.co.us]
>Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:49 AM
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Disabling passwd aging
>
>
>Paul,
>I don't know how many people you're trying to do this for, but
>admintool allows you to set password aging to 'none' - very easily.
>I'm sure there's more complicated ways to do this, but for individual
>users 'admintool' is pretty straight forward, quick and easy.
>good luck!
>Kyle
>
>> From: "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury3 at loop.com>
>> To: "rescue at sunhelp.org" <rescue at sunhelp.org>, "sunhelp at sunhelp.org" 
><sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 02:50:45 -0700
>> 
>> How would I disable passwd aging, or basically allow
>> a user to use whatever they want for a passwd so long
>> as it's 5+ chars?  I looked at man pages for pmconv, passwd, etc,
>> but didn't find what I was looking for.
>> 
>> Also, please reply to me, pkhoury3 at loop.com - I'm not subscribed
>> on this address (subscribed under pkhoury3 at earthlink.net).
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
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