A while back I posted the question:
We have an Alpha 4100 running DU 3.2. The main application running on
the Digital Unix box is Lawson which is a financial database
application (using Oracle). The users connect to this application
with Lawson's client software running on their NT boxes. The problem
is when the users password expires on the Digital Unix box. They
never see the warnings because they are never directly logged into the
Unix box. One day they come in and their password is incorrect
because it's expired. Right now they have set password aging to 26
weeks until a solution can be found. Because the database contains
financial data the auditors are not happy about this.
The application folks have asked if a script can be written which the
users can run to let them know if their password is about to expire.
Apparently the application has a pulldown menu to which Unix scripts
can be added for the user to run. So..is there a utility that can be
run to let you know when your password is about to expire?
-- Alison Ayson
Roche Bioscience
Palo Alto, CA
I got many responses almost all of which were "we have the same
problem, let me know what you find out". Unfortunately I've been
fighting fire after fire and have not had a chance to look into this
further.
A couple of people who responded had some further info/suggestions:
>I am in the process of writing such a utility for my site. Since I
>have Enchanged Securiy installed, my C program basically does a call
>to getprpwnam and prints the expiration time.
>
>pr = getprpwnam(name);
>expiration_time = pr->ufld.fd_schange + pr->ufld.fd_expire;
>printf("Password expires at %s\n",ctime(&expiration_time));
>
>I'd like to hear what you have found. Please summarize.
>
>
>Ellen Davis
>Ellen.Davis_at_uc.edu
and...
>hmm you could run weekly reports and send email to them... or force
>them just to change their password every month... tell them that on
>the 1st of each month they should do it.
>
>but are you using c2 security -....
>if so Randy Hayman <haymanr_at_icefog.sois.alaska.edu> might be able to
>point you to a function
>because in his zuausr utilities, user_report shows those dates...
>
> Pam Woods - axsymgr_at_uaa.alaska.edu
So..sorry to take so long to summarize. But I still need to do some
more research on this. Thanks to everyone who responded.
Alison Ayson
Roche Bioscience
Palo Alto, CA
Received on Thu Oct 30 1997 - 00:05:06 NZDT