hai Friends
How can i check the root password of a linux system using a c program or with some shell script... I have seen many tools like webmin that authenticates the user using the root password... How do they do that... Pls help...
Thanks in advance
Collins (1 Reply)
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this or not but we use a program called "Password Safe" to store the many root passwords we have for our Unix system.
Now we are being called out by our security team to prove that this is a safe program to use. So far I have been able to determine... (1 Reply)
Hi
While using Pipe concept ,if a user enters a "login name" and "paswword"
,then how does a child process check for user password is correct or not and give notification to parent process. (1 Reply)
Hi Guys,
I hope one of you has already done this and is kind enough to share your script with me.
I have a Solaris8 server that uses password aging for its local user accounts. I need a script that checks the age of the password and then sends the user an email if the password is about to... (3 Replies)
Hi there,
There's something I don't understand. The same string does not give the same md5 hash everytime. I wanted to find a way to check someone's password but the following script obviously shows that it's not possible that way :
ks354286:~# user=foo
ks354286:~# pw=$(mkpasswd -H md5... (3 Replies)
I need to periodically run a check on the passwords of the users (Redhat 5.0) to verify that all passwords meet minimal standards. I remember seeing a script years ago that grabbed the encrypted passwords from the file and checked if they matched any of the encrypted strings in another file, plus... (1 Reply)
I have an AIX server running 6.1. My SAN switch is reporting that it is only receiving 5.9 uWatts (micro watts) and it should be well over 100 uWatts. How can I see the transmit strength of my fiber card from within AIX? I have Emulex fiber cards. (1 Reply)
I have read the forums for strengthing the openssl ciphers on a server and the following command I can run:
openssl ciphers -v 'TLSv1+HIGH:!SSLv2:RC4!MEDIUM:!aNULL:!eNULL:!3DES:!EXPORT:@STRENGTH'
I have some services that cannot be set to higher levels like you can set in an httpd.conf file.... (1 Reply)
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