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Subject: Re: Password Aging System for Unix
From: "Chris Kostick" <christopher . t . kostick @ cpmx . saic . com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 08:19:47 -0400
To: <robertp @ hal-pc . ORG>, <firewalls @ GreatCircle . com>

> I have approximately 12 Sun's and a similar number of Solaris 
> workstations behind an ANS Interlock Firewall/SecureID combination.
> 
> The Sun's and Solaris workstations contain extremely sensitive 
> information that we have protected Password protected.

As a general rule, you don't need (or should) give out this type of
information to a public forum.

>  I'm trying to 
> locate some type of an application that I can put on BOTH types of 
> workstations to alert me when passwords are 30 days old and also
> send a message to the user that their password is about to expire. 
> The only thing I'm aware of is NIS Plus that I can use on Solaris 
> however, it will not work with the Sun's.  
> 

SunOS 4.1.x does support password aging but there are no tools within the
OS to take advantage of it. If you manually install aging characters as
a part of the password field it will be paid attention to. Someone may have
written the code to do it.

> Any help would be appreciated. Since this is only remotely related to 
> firewalls, please e-mail me direct at rplauman @
 ems .
 jsc .
 nasa .
 gov
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Bob Plaumann


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