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Operating Systems Solaris changing password Post 53104 by malcom on Tuesday 6th of July 2004 06:06:08 AM
Old 07-06-2004
Hi,

I am not sure if I understood your question right ... but if you mean how you can see when a user changed his password and where, you can/should do two things.

The first thing, which is necessary anyway for a user system, is to monitor the passwd/shadow files ... Then you see when something changed.
An to see where the password was changed you could activate/configure the accounting on the machine.

But why do you want to know this ?

regards
malcom
 

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lchage(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 lchage(8)

NAME
lchage - Display or change user password policy SYNOPSIS
lchage [OPTION]... user DESCRIPTION
Displays or allows changing password policy of user. OPTIONS
-d, --date=days Set the date of last password change to days after Jan 1 1970. -E, --expire=days Set the account expiration date to days after Jan 1 1970. Set days to -1 to disable account expiration. -i, --interactive Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration. -I, --inactive=days Disable the account after days after password expires (after the user user is required to change the password). -l, --list Only list current user's policy and make no changes. -m, --mindays=days Require at least days days between password changes. Set days to 0 to disable this checking. -M, --maxdays=days Require changing the password after days since last password change. Set days to 99999 to disable this checking. -W, --warndays=days Start warning the user days before password expires (before the user is required to change the password). EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error. libuser Jan 12 2005 lchage(8)
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