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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
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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