Micro/Vax/Station 2000 question

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Tue Jun 1 15:59:43 1999

> By the way, while doing all of the rebooting to determine that it was the
> MIN boot that was causing my problem, I tested the thing and found that it

Generally booting with sysstartup_p1 set to "min" is strictly for starup
of a new system or cracking a password as it turns off a lot of stuff.

> seems Y2K compliant. At least as far as rolling over from 31 Dec 1999 to
> 1 Jan 2000. That little bit of experiment also required me to change my
> password - again. Is there any way to kill the calendar expiration of
> passwords? For my usage, I'd be happy if it didn't even look for one!

While in Authorize do a HELP. There is a setting that will allow for
passwords that do not expire I think /passwd=Noexpire or some such,
check though as it's not something I do often. ;)

Allison
Received on Tue Jun 01 1999 - 15:59:43 BST