protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis) (01/11/91)
How do I disable password expiration for Esix? Thanks. -- Mike Protofanousis msp@pronet.chi.il.us uunet!motcid!protofan
det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) (01/14/91)
larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: >protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis) writes: >>How do I disable password expiration for Esix? >With ISC - that is set with the PASSREQ flag in /etc/default/login >PASSREQ=NO I don't believe that this is what mike p. wanted. According to the manual [login(1)], "When PASSREQ is set to YES, [] users will be required to have a password." The way i do this is to use, as root, the command "passwd -x -1 name", where "name" is the user's login name. See TFM entry: passwd(1) -- Derek "Tigger" Terveer det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG - MNFHA, NCS - UMN Women's Lax, MWD I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need your advice. -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots
tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) (01/14/91)
In <1991Jan11.165609.8026@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: >protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis) writes: >>How do I disable password expiration for Esix? >With ISC - that is set with the PASSREQ flag in /etc/default/login >TIMEZONE=EST5EDT >HZ=100 >CONSOLE=/dev/console >PASSREQ=NO ... Not true - this allows a user to login with no password assigned. If set to yes they will be prompted for a new password. To disable ageing on a given account, use $ passwd -x -1 account (at least that's what the manual says if you believe it.) Tim -- Tim Wright, Dell Computer Corp. (UK) | Email address Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 1RW | Domain: tim@dell.co.uk Tel: +44-344-860456 | Uucp: ...!ukc!delluk!tim "What's the problem? You've got an IQ of six thousand, haven't you?"
fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (01/15/91)
In article <4585@cocoa7.UUCP>, protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis) writes: > How do I disable password expiration for Esix? Look in /etc/shadow. The last two fields are minimum and maximum time between password changes. The defaults are 14 and 28. You can edit this and make the desired changes. -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl (206)527-3385
ade@clark.edu (Adrian Miranda) (01/16/91)
In article <tim.663855115@holly> tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) writes: >In <1991Jan11.165609.8026@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: > >>protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis) writes: > >>>How do I disable password expiration for Esix? ... >they will be prompted for a new password. To disable ageing on a given account, >use >$ passwd -x -1 account >(at least that's what the manual says if you believe it.) To disable ageing on all accounts (under esix anyway), you can put MAXWEEKS=-1 in the file "/etc/default/passwd". (Actually, old accounts will still have ageing on til the passwd is changed again, or until ageing is turned off on those accounts specifically.) Adrian Miranda uunet!clark!ade or ade@clark.edu