I've enabled password aging for numerous users on a
hp-UX 11.11 system, and now want to disable password
aging for several users. I tried simply deleting the
additional password aging field from an entry in the
/etc/passwd file, and the user said that they were
prompted to change their password when they logged in.
In the example below, I deleted the ",BAmQ" part of the
password field. Is this enough to disable aging, or
are there more files involved?

-Thanks

jsmith:tH6.jqq5s160U,BAmQ:9611:6400:John Smith:/home/jsmith:/bin/bash

In article <pan.2005.04.22.21.06.35.797364@body.com>, somebody wrote:
> I've enabled password aging for numerous users on a
> hp-UX 11.11 system, and now want to disable password
> aging for several users. I tried simply deleting the
> additional password aging field from an entry in the
> /etc/passwd file, and the user said that they were
> prompted to change their password when they logged in.
> In the example below, I deleted the ",BAmQ" part of the
> password field. Is this enough to disable aging, or
> are there more files involved?

I think that should do it. Its possible the password info was cached. You
probably have pwgrd running, which caches passwd/group info. If the user is
still (currently) being forced to change, you can temporarily stop pwgrd...

Kevin

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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:35:04 +0000, Kevin Collins wrote:
> I think that should do it. Its possible the password info was cached. You
> probably have pwgrd running, which caches passwd/group info. If the user is
> still (currently) being forced to change, you can temporarily stop pwgrd...
>
> Kevin


Thanks, I wasn't aware that information was cached.