06-28-2011
Password last changed
Hi,
I am doing an audit and thought I knew what I was doing, but reading through the posts I came into doubt.
On Sun Solaris, I want to know when users last changed their passwords. I have the etc/shadow files and there is a nice field showing this. Except that it is disturbing me somewhat that for example the root password is indicated as having been last changed in 1987 on a computer that was installed in 2011? Some users have apparently never changed their passwords, despite that we have password rules in place, in etc/passwd.
Searching the forums here I found 2 threads dealing with password change logging, but the answer seems to be that there is no trace of last password change and that the login process does not write to the shadow file - and then I'm confused to bits! The man page says that last password change is written to shadow. It also indicates if the last login was successful. I am not talking about accounts marked with LK or NP.
Can somebody tell me the "truth" (and nothing but ...)
Thanks
Norgaard
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augenrules
AUGENRULES:(8) System Administration Utilities AUGENRULES:(8)
NAME
augenrules - a script that merges component audit rule files
SYNOPSIS
augenrules [--check] [--load]
DESCRIPTION
augenrules is a script that merges all component audit rules files, found in the audit rules directory, /etc/audit/rules.d, placing the
merged file in /etc/audit/audit.rules. Component audit rule files, must end in .rules in order to be processed. All other files in
/etc/audit/rules.d are ignored.
The files are concatenated in order, based on their natural sort (see -v option of ls(1)) and stripped of empty and comment (#) lines.
The last processed -D directive without an option, if present, is always emitted as the first line in the resultant file. Those with an
option are replicated in place. The last processed -b directive, if present, is always emitted as the second line in the resultant file.
The last processed -f directive, if present, is always emitted as the third line in the resultant file. The last processed -e directive,
if present, is always emitted as the last line in the resultant file.
The generated file is only copied to /etc/audit/rules.d, if it differs.
OPTIONS
--check
test if rules have changed and need updating without overwriting audit.rules.
--load load old or newly built rules into the kernel.
FILES
/etc/audit/rules.d/ /etc/audit/audit.rules
SEE ALSO
audit.rules(8), auditctl(8), auditd(8).
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