07-05-2010
You never know with so called "tests". However, on newer machines, if a root account is present (which it does NOT have to be on newer Solaris, and such will be the case with Solaris 11), often times a password IS required or the account is not valid. So.. not sure what the test is looking for. In the old days, clearing out the root password was the easy way to break into a box for which the root password had been forgotten. You simply mounted up the filesystem (different box, or same box with a bootable CD) and took at the password hash for root. But on some newer OS's, non existent passwords are not allowed... well, they are allowed but the result is a locked account.... I'd have to google around to see what Solaris does now... but who knows what the "test" is looking for.
In OpenSolaris and future Solaris 11, root becomes a role and NOT an account by default... but it can easily be added for compatibility with the plethora of sw, etc. that still needs a root account.
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lpasswd
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)