[ug-bosug] Re: Forcing root user to follow the passwd construction rules

[Ashok Kumar]

Hi Mike Lewis,

i am new to solaris. i haven't played like you on solaris.
can you tell me your problem with little more explanation?. so that,
atleast i can understand the problem.

what was that file?
what you changed?
how you changed?
what is your exceptation?
are you suspecting anything?
and more......

cheers
Ashok


On 7/21/06, Mike Lewis <mdl at jackpinetech.com> wrote:
>
> I am running with b42A, and we modified the /etc/default/passwd file to
> enforce certain password restrictions (such as PASSLENGTH = 8 ).
>
> We modified this file the same way as we did it in the past in Solaris 10,
> except now whenever a non-root user attempts to change their password they
> get greeted with "Permission denied".
>
> Any ideas?
>
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>        mdlewis
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