Clearing Password History

^{on Nov. 19, 2013, 11:05 a.m.}

Occasionally one has to violate best practice to clear password history... here is how to do it on

AIX, and Linux:
chuser histsize=0 username
Sometimes on AIX you have to make sure these lines exist too.
edit this file so that root has a minage and histexpire:
vi /etc/security/user
minage=0
histexpire=0

Solaris
chmod 600 /etc/security/passhistory
vi /etc/security/passhistory (delete the line for your user here)
chmod 400 /etc/security/passhistory