Well the consensus is in -- it's not possible with the current OS (Solaris 2.6; Solaris 8 and 9) that I've got on my systems. Many thanks to those who did respond (original question is below): Casper Dik -- who mentioned that this will be an added feature in Solaris 10 and provided a URL: http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-0547/6mgbdbsmm?a=view Todd Wilkinson -- "....you can't do it with local host files or NIS, I don't know about NIS+. I do know that you can do this with LDAP using the SunONE directory as the password storage repository." (we're running NIS and not LDAP -- maybe further on down the road we may move towards LDAP) Dale Hirchirt -- who called to say hello and to let me know that this is not available with my current systems. It was good to talk with you again Bubba :o) Chimo, -- deb -----Original Message----- From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Santomauro, Deborah Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:58 AM To: Sun Managers Subject: Password history Gurus, I've tried to find the answer through the man pages (passwd) and googling, but I'm unable to find what parameter can be used in the /etc/default/passwd file that defines the number of days/weeks that a "used" password is kept. In other words, I don't want my users to change their password back to one that had been used before in the last month or so. In other operating systems - i.e. AIX and SGI - you can use the "HISTORYDAYS" or "histsize" and set this to the number of weeks that must pass before that same password can be re-used. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated and I will summarize. Thanks. OS = Sun-Blade-100/Solaris 8 and 9 Deborah Santomauro Unix System Administrator - SCSA Lockheed Martin-Enterprise Information Systems Palmdale, CA 93599 Phone: 661-572-1178 Fax: 661-572-5398 It is not death that we should fear, but we should fear never beginning to live - Marcus Aurelius _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Jul 20 18:39:26 2004
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