SUMMARY:passwd aging in NIS

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Thanks to :
Jim Harmon
Matthew Stier
Rick Reineman
Sandeep Patni

for their help.

ANSWER:
NIS does not support password aging.

 
ORIGINAL QUESTION :

> We are trying to implement passwd aging in our environment.We run plain
vanilla
> NIS (yp) with a Solaris 2.5.1 machine as the NIS master server.The passwd and
> shadow files for the NIS maps are kept in /var/yp/etc directory.We tried to
> change the fields in the shadow file to prompt for password aging but it just
> doesnt seem to work.The same settings if made to a local user in the
/etc/shadow
> file work ok.
> Does yppasswd care for the other fields in the shadow file,if not then how do
we
> implement password aging for NIS user accounts ?

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