Re: Password expiration in Solaris

Gregory Hicks <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.sun
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:30:38 -0400
> From: Paul Greene <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Password expiration in Solaris
> 
> There appears to be two different ways to apply password expiration in 
> Solaris; one is the parameters set in /etc/shadow (through admintool or 
> command line), and the other is the password parameters set in 
>  /etc/default/passwd.
> 
> Which one takes precedence if both are configured?

shadow.

> 
> PG
> 

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