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Operating Systems AIX root passwd expiration on AIX Post 302329966 by kwliew999 on Monday 29th of June 2009 10:55:35 PM
Old 06-29-2009
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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bool xattr_remove (string $filename, string $name, [int $flags]) DESCRIPTION
This function removes an extended attribute of a file. Extended attributes have two different namespaces: user and root. The user namespace is available to all users, while the root namespace is available only to users with root privileges. xattr operates on the user namespace by default, but this can be changed with the $flags parameter. PARAMETERS
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