Synchronizing Forced Password Changes?

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?"

Comments

Different Solution

[Sandman1971]

Here's a totally different solution: go with something like RSA's SecureID. This eliminates the need for users to change passwords, since the password rotates every second. And the server software runs on various platforms (*nix, windows, Novell). And you have better security since user passwords rotate every minute or so. We use it at work and it's great.

Re:Password changing is ignorant

[pastie]

After all... as long as I protect its use and don't share it or record it, f$6hq7# is as secure in a year as it was the day I defined it.

Not anymore :)

Re:what a silly question?

[Directrix1]

You know one word doesn't really help him too much. You might want to provide some ldap administration tutorial links or something.

Re:what a silly question?

[chiddiscokid]

One word is all you need to start investigating a technology. Finding the right word is what expert advice (e.g. Slashdot or asking "any geek") is for.