Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:37:46 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Password Expiration Questions Message-ID: <20030110143510.F63003-100000@fubar.adept.org> In-Reply-To: <AFB399ACC132D511A0F700508B6FC8D2015797BC@mail.bankofamerica.com>
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Robinson, Rick wrote: > :passwordtime=90d:\ > :warnpassword=5d:\ > And now the passwords expire if they haven't been changed after 90 days. > However I have a couple of questions. Right now once your password is > expired the system doesn't force you to change your password to a different > password. Most places I've seen do this using a 3rd party utility. These include passwd+, npasswd or epasswd. Here's a NASA article on epasswd, with references (URLs) to the other packages as well, http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Security/epasswd/article.html -- Mike Hoskins This message is RFC 1855 compliant, mike@adept.org www.adept.org/pub/rfcs/rfc1855.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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