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catrefil

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Oct 20, 2009, 12:46:34 PM10/20/09
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Hi,

I'm trying to implement a password policy on Tru64 v5.1. Specifically,
my password policy states that user password should be changed every
year and should have 8 char with at least one of (lower, Upper, digits
and special characters).

Does anybody know if there is already something built-in? Or I need to
create my own?


Thanks


Philippe

H Vlems

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Oct 20, 2009, 5:57:21 PM10/20/09
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There is a Security Administration manual for V5.1 that you might want
to read.
It's available on-line at: http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51B_ACRO_DUX/ARH95ETE.PDF
I'm a VMS user mainly, with just two Tru64 systems that I use
occasionally. I'm not an admin for unix systems.
Hans

Michael Kraemer

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Oct 21, 2009, 4:53:28 AM10/21/09
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catrefil schrieb:

I don't have a Tru64 up and running right now,
but maybe "sysman" offers some options in its
user administration part. I think you can reach it
via CDE folders on the root account.

Frank J. Perricone

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Oct 21, 2009, 8:19:02 AM10/21/09
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:46:34 -0700 (PDT), catrefil <plab...@gmail.com>
wrote:

I have just implemented something similar and I had to install C2 Enhanced
Security to do it. I suspect the same will be true for you.

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kociszewsk_v

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Apr 15, 2014, 11:26:00 PM4/15/14
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Hello

It seems I have the same problem as you.

Password policy has changed on my tru64 servers from 8 to 10 characters
And when I want to change passwords, I have an error message : Password must be from 1 to 9 characters.

All my servers are on base security and, as I have red, the maximum lenght by default is 8 characters.
So I need to change password lenght but I don't know how to do.

When I edit the /etc/auth/system/default directly or with edauth -dd default, I would set u_maxlen to the password length I need. But when I have done it, password length seems to be unlimited.
I try different password length and it works even if it is longer than what I want.

Can you confirm the only way to obtain the good result is to install C2 Enhanced Security ?
http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.tru64/


Martin

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Apr 30, 2014, 1:53:02 PM4/30/14
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I'm skeptical that you could get this result in Base security. What does "rcmgr get SECURITY" return?
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