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How to disable 3 login attempts (allow as many logins without suspending) on HP-UX Solaris Linux

Hi

How can I disable ssh & console login (ie login via ssh & at the physical console)
attempts for the following Unix :
a) HP-UX trusted(enhanced security) system, B11.23 (ie one without /etc/shadow file present)
b) HP-UX B11.11 (normal HP-UX)
c) Solaris 8, 9, 10
d) Redhat Linux 4.x & 5.x

Also, how can I extend the current password expiry of 90 days to say 180 days
for all the above UNIXes?

Thanks

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> How do you find out "the current password expiry of 90 days" on ALL systems?
Guess I'll just select a few ids/accounts & issue "passwd -s id" & this will tell me
the expiry of the account/id. This gives me a clue, so "passwd -x 180 id"
would extend the expiry of the account/id to 180 days, thanks.

thanks Gheist, looks like I have to do "export DISPLAY=0:0; export TERM=vt100; xhost +"
before I could run SAM properly in my ssh session.

Found from the link you gave the commands to increase the max retries on terminals
& for ids/accounts are respectively :

1) For t_maxtries:
Example:
/usr/lbin/modprterm -m tmaxtries=25

2) For u_maxtries:
Example:
/usr/lbin/modprdef -m umaxlntr=9

Will allocate points after this weekend so that I can quickly refer to my "Open Questions"
section. Thanks a lot