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Expiry - and back to old

Posted Aug 7, 2026 19:55 UTC (Fri) by pwfxq (subscriber, #84695)
In reply to: Expiry - and back to old by marekm
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features

In my early days as a sysadmin, I remember logging a support call with Sun as the password ageing wasn't working in Solaris. I was told that it was broken in early versions of Solaris and I should upgrade to get a fix. IIRC, they claimed it was fixed around Solaris 2.4/2.5

(TBH, much was broken in early versions of Solaris. I believe the unofficial line was that Solaris 2.5 was the first working version)

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Expiry - and back to old

Posted Aug 8, 2026 16:59 UTC (Sat) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link] (1 responses)

Solaris 2.x / SunOS 5.x with x < 5 all has bad issues, iirc. Definitely caused some chaos above the BSD->SVR4 roll-out. Vague recollections that 2.4 could be made to work.

Expiry - and back to old

Posted Aug 17, 2026 19:06 UTC (Mon) by Yenya (subscriber, #52846) [Link]

Yes. 2.4 more-or-less worked, even on X/openlook workstations, and we got 2+ years uptimes with 2.5 on our main file/shell/mail/nfs/whatever-server.