Sunday, 20 November 2016

Disabling password aging in HP-UX

Disabling password aging in any operating system is a security risk but if the concerned system is intended for some sort of file transfer use like automated sftp file transfers then dealing with disabled passwords every couple of months can cause some issues.
This article describes the process to to disable password aging policy globally for all users in HP-UX.

We'll be using SAM for this. So, as root user type sam on the command line & the SAM TUI menu will open.

From there navigate to Auditing & security > System security policies


At the System security policies menu press the space bar to edit the policies.


From here you can see that password aging is currently enabled. You can disable it & press ok to save changes.


1 comment:

  1. Hi There,

    What you’re saying is absolutely correct A system engineer's notebook, but this isn’t the exact situation everywhere. Where most smart folk work on a project - why can’t you do this the Boss asks :).

    How can I install linux kernel itself on a clean system without GUI?
    I want to boot to console and it wouldnt have anything such as ubuntu.

    Excellent tutorials - very easy to understand with all the details. I hope you will continue to provide more such tutorials.

    Grazie,
    Preethi

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