Are you talking about the one that increments each times there is a failed login? (the one with a 3 in my example).
ya thats what i meant but why its written there in man page " flag Failed login count in low order four bits; remainder
reserved for future use, set to zero "....what does it mean?
Sirs,
What is a shadow file,How it be usefull.For my project i have to keep the password in shawdow file also i am doing in php how can i do it.
Thanks in advance,
ArunKumar (3 Replies)
Hey guys..
i need to be able to append 'LK' to a password field in the shadow file
I cannot use commands such as usermod chsh i need to directly be able to manupilate the files through a menu driven interface. So in other words write to the shadow file
How could i do this?
so far... (1 Reply)
I guess the earlier problem I had with changing user passwords and creating new users is related to the shadow file. Anytime I change something to /etc/passwd or shadow I get locked out.
HOW DO I REGENERATE THIS FILE. (1 Reply)
Hi,
In shadow file
smithj:Ep6mckrOLChF.:10063:0:99999:7:::
3rd Field 10063 indicates the number of days (since January 1, 1970) since the password was last changed.
I want to get the result with script the date on which the password was last changed in YYYY-MM-DD format.
can... (8 Replies)
As a part of linux hardening
In shadow file all Application accounts which are not locked must contain only an asterisk “*” in the Passwd field.
But how would i do it by using command?
Is there any way other than modifying shadow file to accomplish this task? (3 Replies)
Hello,
I got into a wired state on one of solaris 10 server. When I noticed that server is having some issue, I found that there were dumpadm.conf entries in /etc/shadow and real entries were wiped of. Probably somebody fat fingers.
I was able to boot into failsafe, break SVM mirror, copied... (25 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
securetty
SECURETTY(5) Linux Programmer's Manual SECURETTY(5)NAME
securetty - file which lists terminals from which root can log in
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/securetty contains the names of terminals (one per line, without leading /dev/) which are considered secure for the transmis-
sion of certain authentication tokens.
It is used by (some versions of) login(1) to restrict the terminals on which root is allowed to login. See login.defs(5) if you use the
shadow suite.
On PAM enabled systems, it is used for the same purpose by pam_securetty(8) to restrict the terminals on which empty passwords are
accepted.
FILES
/etc/securetty
SEE ALSO login(1), login.defs(5), pam_securetty(8)COLOPHON
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