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Operating Systems Solaris How to : check username & password is same or not in solaris 10 ? Post 302268420 by reborg on Monday 15th of December 2008 05:22:40 PM

12-15-2008

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Originally Posted by incredible

In Solaris, you can't do that, even if you try, might be with least success for the forth coming issues that you might come across or face.

Here is what I would do (based on the assumption that accounts won't be locked on first failed attempt) and is essentially the same method as Stevie used, but will work even in the event that the passwd command cannot be used.

1. Inform the users that you are going to perform a security audit of passwords.
2. Run a script that runs a login against each user attempting to use the username as a password, the result speaks for itself.

You will sacrifice a login attempt for each user, but you will have informed them all of this.

As for me, I have a security policy which requires that tools like JTR are used to identify weak passwords, so I don't do specific checks like this manually.

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URL(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    URL(4)

NAME

     url -- Realtek RTL8150L USB Ethernet driver

SYNOPSIS

     url*    at uhub?
     urlphy* at mii?

DESCRIPTION

     The url driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Realtek RTL8150L USB-ether bridge chip.

     The url driver supports the following adapters:

	   CompUSA USBKR100
	   GreenHouse GH-USB100B
	   Melco Inc. LUA-KTX
	   Sitecom LN013

     For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

DIAGNOSTICS

     url%d: watchdog timeout  A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the
     transmission before a timeout expired.

     url%d: no memory for rx list  The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), mii(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The url device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6.

AUTHORS

     The url driver was written by Shingo WATANABE <nabe@nabechan.org>.

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