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1. Solaris
Hello experts,
I am an PLM application admin, use AIX/SOlaris servers where application is installed
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2. Cybersecurity
Hello Gurus,
I am trying to set up bidirectional password-less login between a linux and a Solaris. The way I am doing is very simple, which is creating pub/priv key pairs on each host and add the pub key to each other's authorized_keys file:
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Iam using the teradata...
and running the scripts in unix,
I wan to encrypt the teradata password in Unix...
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5. Solaris
Hi Gurus
I have a few Sol 5.9 servers and i have enabled password less authentication between them for my user ID. Often i have found that when my password has expired,the login fails.
Resetting my password reenables the keys.
Do i need to do something to avoid this scenario or is this... (2 Replies)
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6. Solaris
Hi,
I would like to login from a Sun server running ssh:
Sun_SSH_1.1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090704f
to
ssh: SSH Secure Shell 3.0.1 on sparc-sun-solaris2.6
How can I achieve this?
Thanks a million in advance (1 Reply)
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7. AIX
I have a strange question for someone regarding the AIX 5.2 environment.
Here is the scenerio:
I have a script that is running a menu full of options.
1. I like food
2. I don't like food
Enter Option:_
Enter userID:_
Enter Password:_
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
All,
I want to encrypt a database system administration password into a file or environment variable. Then, I want to decrypt the password from the file or environment variable so nobody sees the clear text password.
For example, I have the database password of developement.
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lpasswd(1) General Commands Manual lpasswd(1)
NAME
lpasswd - Change group or user password
SYNOPSIS
lpasswd [OPTION]... [name]
DESCRIPTION
Changes password of user or group name.
If the name argument is not provided, username of the invoking user is used; the name argument is ignored if lpasswd is run set-uid to a
different user.
Entering an empty password (by pressing Enter) aborts the password setting operation.
OPTIONS
-F, --plainpassword-fd=fd
Read password from file descriptor fd, terminated by end of file, '
' or '
'.
-f, --password-fd=fd
Read password hash from file descriptor fd, terminated by end of file, '
' or '
'.
-g, --group
Change password of group name. By default the password of user name is changed.
-i, --interactive
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.
-P, --plainpassword=password
Set the password to password. Note that the password can be viewed while running lpasswd using tools such as ps(1).
-p, --password=encrypted
Set the password to the password represented by the hash encrypted. Note that the hash can be viewed while running lpasswd using
tools such as ps(1).
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.
libuser Jan 12 2005 lpasswd(1)