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Synchronizing Forced Password Changes?

Posted by Cliff on from the decentralized-password-maintenance dept.

aroobie asks: "I have several different types of servers running at my small office including Windows 2000 Advanced Server, VMS, IRIX, and Linux. My corporate parent wants to force passwords to change every 90 days, which is a good thing, but once a user changes his/her Windows password access to the other servers is denied until I make appropriate changes on the non-Windows servers. Sort of defeats the purpose of changing the password since each users has to give me their new password to make them match on on the servers. Has anyone found a way to synchronize passwords on different systems? Is there software available to do this?"

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  1. Retarded by Skord · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have been working 24 hours solid at my admin job. My brain hurts. Don't give me any pain receptor bullshit. I have evolved pain sensors in my brain from days like this.

    I think tommorrow I might ask slashdot "how sambah wurks".

    Ignore me. I am the most overworked person in IT today.

  2. Don't be so uppity... by darken9999 · · Score: 2, Funny
    The supposed benefit of using Ask Slashdot is to get a wide range of opinions on a matter. Granted that a person may run into some stories of experience in the newsgroups, they won't find nearly as much.

    I'm sure they know of ldap, kerberos, blah, blah, blah... but which should they use? What do their peers think? What have their peers experienced?

    Nothing like Unix geeks. We bitch at all the horrible sys admins (mostly Windows, of course ;^), then we redicule them when they ask for our help.