Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: SCO Unix 3.2 passwords Summary: Point of view Message-ID: <479@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 25 Sep 89 14:29:54 GMT References: <1989Sep21.151325.8827@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <656@fiver.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 13 In article <656@fiver.UUCP>, palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes: | P.S. An annoying feature of unix 3.2 is password ageing. I don't know | if its the same on the C2 version of SCO's unix but to turn it off: | 'passwd -x -1 login_name' A good tip, but what may be annoying to a hobbiest is a useful secuity feature in some uses. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon