[HPADM] Re: Alternate to Trusted

From: Murat Suluhan (msuluhan@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2006 - 03:59:25 EDT


You can look at

man security

On 8/28/06, Joe Crawford <abjcrawford@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Our security Admin has suggested the following
> approach as alternate to trusted mode(not a full
> solution but atleast for passwd etc). we use a
> security software which generates lots of reds for
> passwd problems(history, depth, chars etc)
>
> Note: The techniques below should only be applied to
> HP-UX operating systems.
>
> To make Invalid Mimimum Password History reds go away,
> create a file called /etc/default/security. Configure
> it as follows:
>
> PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH=4
> MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH=6
> PASSWORD_MIN_DIGIT_CHARS=1
> PASSWORD_MIN_SPECIAL_CHARS=2
>
> To remove Invalid Maximum Password Age reds without
> Trusted Mode, for each login that exhibits the red,
> type (as root):
>
> passwd -x 84 <login ID>
>
> My question is our systems run HP-UX 11.0. does this
> support this feature? i thought i read somewhere that
> the /etc/default/security file can be created only on
> 11.11? Also since we run NIS, we cannot go trusted.
> Please Clarify.
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe.
>
>
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