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Old 05-27-2005
clear passwd history without ...
how do I clear passwd history of a user without compromising the audit trail for security?

in a nutshell, user abc wants to re-use his passwd ( he is not savvy with computers )
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Old 05-27-2005
Warning: this is my opinion.

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clear passwd history of a user without compromising the audit trail for security
You can't - you are talking about changing your security for a user because of his/her issues with remembering a new password. I'm sure the savvy hacker can act just as dumb as a non-savvy user to get by your security measures if you start making exceptions for folks that can't make up a new password.

Give him/her a pad of paper and pencil and take away the computer.

(END RANT)
Please post the OS and version and any 3rd party security software you might be using - then an appropriate answer can hopefully be given to allow this.
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Old 05-27-2005
AIX 5.1/5.2
no vendor software is installed, just using the standard smitty settings for each user (must change 3 chars/nums)
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Old 05-27-2005
This is not a safe request. Why would you cater to this user's inablility to remember a password?

Is it the CEO? Smilie
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Old 05-27-2005
I am not an AIX guy. But poking around the man pages, I found chuser. It looks like:
chuser histsize=0 username
might do it.
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