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root passwd expiration on AIX
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 |
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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.
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I understand that by running the command pwdadm -c user, the ADMCHG flags will be removed from /etc/security/passwd file. But in the first place, why it doesn't remove the flags after root id has changed the password?
Why we need to run this command of pwdadm -c to remove the flag ADMCHG manually? Is there any patches need to be applied to permanently fix the problem? I afraid whenever the root id been expired, the same problem will happen again. Thanks. |
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