hi, i have some doubts about "users password expiration" in baan IV... i have AIX 5.3.. so... the thing is that I want to expire the users passwords every month... so, i see that in smit user - I can set this parameters... like: password MAX. AGE [] but is it in days??? or weeks?? i need to expire every password every month... and warn to all the users 5 days before their password expires...

This might assist you ...

http://www.mombu.com/programming/pascal/t-aix-password-max-age-parameter-739015.html

In that posting, someone explains the minage, maxage, and maxexpired parameters, so you might get a good understanding.

I apologize, I'm not familiar enough with IBM AIX to give you a link to this type of information from their website.

I hope that this information helps you!

Edit: Try this link, it should have EXACTLY what you are looking for:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.security/doc/security/aix_sec_expert_pwd_policy_settings.htm

I apologize that the URL is so long, but you can go higher up in the hierarchy, and click a shorter link, I hope.

thankyou very much!! you are so kind. but still i have some doubts, I just don't feel sure about how can i set up this security parameters for aix.... should i just set the MAX AGE for 4 weeks??

Based on what you asked for, this is the closest I can get you:

Set the password to expire after 4 weeks.
Set it to warn you 1 week before it expires.

Don't forget that I've never "knowingly" punched a command into an AIX system in my life, I'm just posting the docs, and going from what I read there.