I am implementing LDAP on Linux based system using openldap.
My management objects to the idea that all individual users will authenticate against an LDAP server because “what if it is not available”
Their suggestion is that we run in parallel a set of local configured users and a set of LDAP... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
If ldap user is disabled on linux. Do you think ldap processes will still run while ldap user had been disabled?
Thanks for any comment you may add. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm brand new here and looking for a solution:
I'm using mail or mailx. The default reply address is «myshortusername@mylongusername.local» which makes absolutely no sense for anybody receiving my emails.
But how do I change it? There seem to be many solutions but none for Mac OS X.... (0 Replies)
Inorder to find the user memory consumption I used the command: prstat -s cpu -a -n 10
But now I want to automate it and want to write the output to a file.
How can I write the out put of user name and percentage of consumption alone to an output file.? (2 Replies)
If I create a new user id test:
mkuser id=400 test
then I want it to LDAP user:
chuser -R LDAP SYSTEM=LDAP registry=LDAP test
It shows:
3004-687 User "test" does not exist.
How to do? (4 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have a script that requires me to switch from local user to root. Anyone who has an idea on this since when i switch user to root it requires me to input root password.
It seems that i need to use expect module here, but i don't know how to create the object for this.
... (1 Reply)
Hi all, Hope everyone doing good.
Let me come to point, i have setup-ed a LDAP server and client machines
Server works perfect, while make a search from client machine it too get the Query from LDAP server, But while i switch user it says user not exists
# su - babin
su: user babin does... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I'm currently trying to mix local and LDAP users on an AIX 7.1.
I've triied many things.
My LDAP Server in on a CentOS - OpenLDAP (which works fine with linux).
I'm currently stuck on AIX at how to declare LDAP AND Local users.
Here's what i did :
/usr/sbin/mksecldap -c -h 'ldap03'... (15 Replies)
Hi,
I need to switch from local user to root user in a shell script.
I need to make it automated so that it doesn't prompt for the root password.
I heard the su command will do that work but it prompt for the password.
and also can someone tell me whether su command spawns a new shell or... (1 Reply)
Hello,
i configured rhel linux 6 with AD directory to authorize windows users to connect on the system and it works.
i have accounts with high privileges (oracle for example) if an account is created on the AD server i would to block him.
I looked for how to do, for the moment all the... (3 Replies)
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mkpasswd
mkpasswd(8) System Manager's Manual mkpasswd(8)NAME
mkpasswd - Creates a version of the basic user database organized for efficient searches
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/mkpasswd [-v] [-s size] passwdfile
DESCRIPTION
The mkpasswd command creates an auxiliary version of the basic user database in a form organized for efficient searches by the getpwuid
subroutine and the getpwnam subroutine. The mkpasswd command reads the user attributes in the /etc/passwd file and creates a hashed pass-
word database in the /etc/passwd.dir and /etc/passwd.pag files (see ndbm(3) reference page).
If you specify a file other than /etc/passwd, the command reads the user attributes in that file and creates a hashed password database in
the passwdfile.dir and passwdfile.pag files. It is important to know that the password file you designate must be in password file format
(see the passwd(4) reference page).
Note that if you use the vipw command to edit a password file, you do not need to use the mkpasswd command. This is because the vipw com-
mand automatically invokes the mkpasswd command which in turn creates the /etc/passwd.dir and /etc/passwd.pag files.
Only the root user should have execute access to the mkpasswd command.
Files accessed: File /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.pag /etc/passwd.dir passwdfile passwdfile.pag passwdfile.dir
The mkpasswd command may fail with a errno value of EFBIG if the password file is large (30,000 entries or more). This failure can be
avoided by using the -s option to set a larger page block size for the hashed database.
FLAGS
Specifies that each stored entry be listed on standard output Specifies the page block size to use in creating the hashed password data-
base. The size argument is a value from 1 to 32, representing page block sizes from 1024 to 32768, respectively. The default page block
size is 1024.
EXAMPLES
If you have not used vipw to edit the /etc/passwd and wish to generate a hashed password database, enter the following: /usr/sbin/mkpasswd
-v /etc/passwd An auxiliary version of the basic user database (/etc/passwd.dir and /etc/passwd.pag files) is created with a hashing algo-
rithm.
To create a hashed password database with a page block size of 8192, enter the following: /usr/sbin/makepasswd -s 8 /etc/passwd
SECURITY NOTE
If enhanced security is running on your system, the passwords are stored in the extended attributes database. See the Security guide for
more information about passwords in the enhanced security environment.
RETURN VALUES
The mkpasswd command exits with a nonzero exit code if any errors are detected.
ERRORS
If the mkpasswd request is not successful, the following error message is displayed: The passwdfile.dir and passwdfile.pag files already
exist from a previous execution of the same mkpasswd command.
FILES
Specifies the command path
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: adduser(8), passwd(1), passwd(4), vipw(8)
Functions: getpwent(3), ndbm(3)
Manuals: Security delim off
mkpasswd(8)