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# 1  
Old 10-14-2011
useradd problem
Smiliei want to create a user in solaris whose password expires after every 30 minutes and he has to change his password after evry thirty minutes.How can we do that?Smilie

thanx and regards,

shekhar
# 2  
Old 10-14-2011
It seems it's not possible to implement such requirements with Solaris itself by default you might need some extra tools or you may consult Oracle .
As far as I know Trusted Solaris Extensions might provide such capabilities, It was toward security conscious organizations such as Governments , Military , Banking and so on.
# 3  
Old 10-15-2011
Using ldap as a backend for the password database definitely allow that kind of requirement.
# 4  
Old 10-15-2011
That doesn't follow any best practices even in the most secure environments. Passwords expiring that often would cause people to constantly forget their passwords, and thus ultimately lead to people writing them down, etc...

The file where you store your password policies is /etc/default/passwd


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# 5  
Old 10-15-2011
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Originally Posted by christr
That doesn't follow any best practices even in the most secure environments. Passwords expiring that often would cause people to constantly forget their passwords, and thus ultimately lead to people writing them down, etc...
I thought the same but assumed the requirement is only for testing purposes.
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The file where you store your password policies is /etc/default/passwd
Indeed but this is only for locally handled accounts with which the lowest allowed granularity is one day. This doesn't match the OP requirements.
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Old 10-15-2011
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Originally Posted by jlliagre
Indeed but this is only for locally handled accounts with which the lowest allowed granularity is one day. This doesn't match the OP requirements.
Agreed, my point was Solaris alone can't fulfill that requirement.
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# 7  
Old 10-15-2011
Unless you are using a Solaris release including a Sun Directory Server license, which used to be the case up to Solaris 10 update 5.
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