From: Santomauro, Deborah (deborah.santomauro@lmco.com)
Date: Tue Jul 20 2004 - 18:38:57 EDT
Well the consensus is in -- it's not possible with the current OS
(Solaris 2.6; Solaris 8 and 9) that I've got on my systems. Many
thanks to those who did respond (original question is below):
Casper Dik -- who mentioned that this will be an added feature in
Solaris 10 and provided a URL:
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-0547/6mgbdbsmm?a=view
Todd Wilkinson -- "....you can't do it with local host files or NIS, I
don't
know about NIS+. I do know that you can do this with LDAP using the
SunONE
directory as the password storage repository." (we're running NIS and
not LDAP -- maybe further on down the road we may move towards LDAP)
Dale Hirchirt -- who called to say hello and to let me know that this is
not available with my current systems. It was good to talk with you
again Bubba :o)
Chimo,
-- deb
-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Santomauro,
Deborah
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:58 AM
To: Sun Managers
Subject: Password history
Gurus,
I've tried to find the answer through the man pages (passwd) and
googling, but I'm unable to find what parameter can be used in the
/etc/default/passwd file that defines the number of days/weeks that a
"used" password is kept. In other words, I don't want my users to
change their password back to one that had been used before in the last
month or so. In other operating systems - i.e. AIX and SGI - you can
use the "HISTORYDAYS" or "histsize" and set this to the number of weeks
that must pass before that same password can be re-used. Any help or
advice is greatly appreciated and I will summarize. Thanks.
OS = Sun-Blade-100/Solaris 8 and 9
Deborah Santomauro
Unix System Administrator - SCSA
Lockheed Martin-Enterprise Information Systems
Palmdale, CA 93599
Phone: 661-572-1178
Fax: 661-572-5398
It is not death that we should fear, but we should fear never beginning
to live - Marcus Aurelius
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