[Sunhelp] Disabling passwd aging

Alan Rubin rubin at ezy.net
Fri Jun 23 21:33:46 CDT 2000


doesn't the /etc/default/passwd file contain aging settings as well as
minimum characters for passwords?

alan

On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Kyle Freestone wrote:

> 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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