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Max password size in AIX 6.1
I found on the AIX documentation some rules to set about passwords length :
minlen Defines the minimum length of a password. The value is a decimal integer string. The default is a value of 0, ...
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Another account with same uid as root gets prompted to set new password for root, not itself
After upgrading the os from 5300-06 to 5300-11, this weird behaviour happened.
My system had another unix account, let's call it "abc", purposely configured its uid to 0 for working as a root with ...
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Validate AIX Password for root from script
Looking for a way in a shell script to validate the password for for root on an (AIX) matches a standardized plain text password. This query is similar to another one on this site. I have access to ...
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Validate Password for user account from shell script
Application is for a multiple server standardization script
Looking for a way in a shell script to check if the password for an OS account (AIX) matches a standardized plain text password.
The ...
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Will a users password expire if I set the “maxexpired” to “-1”? [maxage not 0] - AIX
So under AIX 6, according to "lsuser" the user has the following settings:
maxexpired=-1
maxage=2
So this means that 2 weeks after the last password update of the user the password will expire, but ...
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Why does a user get prompted for password under AIX?
Users get prompted for password, and according to the lsuser -f username output:
expires=0
maxexpired=-1
maxage=13
users shouldn't be prompted for changing password.
Why does he has a change ...
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How to check that a user/password is expired in AIX?
I can check that the user is expired or not with:
lsuser -f USERNAME | fgrep expires
But how can I check that the user's password is expired or not? Are there any other "expiring" things that can ...
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Why does this password fail AIX and Solaris rules
Had to reset my password on a couple of client servers today, and despite following the rules I get the message "Your password failed to meet: minimum of 2 non-alphabetic characters" back from the ...
