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Is this normal?
our C2 password limits were set for mandatory changes every 6 months.
One thing
I noticed, every 6 months, our ftp account becomes unusable. We have to
go into
the GUI interface and "unlock" the account. Is this normal to have to do
this?
This isn't a problem, in that I know what is wrong when I can't log a
ftp connection,
and the refused connection isn't logged by tcpwrapper, because it never
got to the
wrapper (because the C2 locked out the ftp account).
Just wondering....
George Gallen
ggallen_at_slackinc.com
Answers.
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Basically the answer I received was YES, this is normal for C2.
In checking more into the shadow password file, I could have added a
field
to the ftp shadow entry that would have set it for lifetime password,
which I
haven't tried and won't. I'd rather unlock the account every 3 months.
Kinda
defeats the purpose of making the users change their passwords every 3
months if you start granting lifetime passwords.
George Gallen
ggallen_at_slackinc.com
Received on Wed Jan 07 1998 - 15:51:33 NZDT