sol 8
SunFire 880

we are finding that somehow password aging is getting turned on for
the root account - which holds obvious concerns! That is - /etc/
shadow is set such that there is no password aging for the root
account

root:Zk2if1J7gHSw8:13746::::::

But we find that after some unknown time (now being monitored!) field
5 is being set by some equally unknown process - we are not setting
it!

Is there any rational answer to this? (Aside from human
intervention!)

cheers

ian

.....

and /etc/default/passwd contains

MAXWEEKS=
MINWEEKS=
PASSLENGTH=8

However other similar systems have the same /etc/default/passwd and do
not suffer this password aging being turned on somehow...

ian

secret solved!

/etc/default/pasword DID have entries in it for minweeks and maxweeks
but they had been removed by the time I saw the file!

please ignore these ramblings.

ian