Min password age

Ken Hornstein kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Sun Nov 7 22:38:30 EST 2004


>I've been unable to get the minimum password life feature to work.  I
>set the default policy to make the minimum password life equal to 300,
>yet I can change passwords over and over again immediately.  What am I
>doing wrong?

You're not doing anything wrong.  The minimum password lifetime
feature is broken (not implemented on the server) for clients using
the "chpw" password changing protocol, which sadly is everybody
nowadays.

--Ken


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