Hi Guys,

some one could help me on this that will be great .

I have AIX 5.1 . when ever u login as root .it says u r passwd is expiredchoose new passwd . I tried couple of times changeing the passwd .still it behaves every time u login it asks to change the passwd . i teied to lokk into passwd file, /etc/security/passwd , smitty user management ,but no use .

any body have any idea !!! how to set this passwd expiration !!!!!!!

thanks in advance
susesun

As long as you can still log in as root run the command pwdadm -c root this should cure the problem. However the user root should really change the password on a regular basis for good security practice. You need to look in the /etc/security/passwd file. This is where all the flags are kept such ADMCHG. Hope this is helpful.