Difference between revisions of "Enforce Password Complexity on Solaris"

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'''NOTE:'''  This will apply to '''ALL''' users, including '''root'''!  As such, if you don't keep track of it, the root password may expire and result in cron jobs not running etc.  You can unexpire root but doing:
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  passwd -x -1 root

Revision as of 23:35, 29 March 2015

Edit the following file:

 /etc/default/passwd

Follow the instructions in the file.

NOTE: This will apply to ALL users, including root! As such, if you don't keep track of it, the root password may expire and result in cron jobs not running etc. You can unexpire root but doing:

 passwd -x -1 root