Good Day
Our HP box was hacked and the passwd file has been altered,there are only 2 user accounts active,and these dont have any administrative rights.I need to edit the passwd file to correct the su and root entries.
Does any body have any suggestions as to how i can do this with out the root... (10 Replies)
Hi all,
As all of us know that in /etc/passwd file the first field correspond to username
could any one tell me what is bin , damoen etc in the first field, and r they in
user field , what is nologin in the last column ?
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash ... (4 Replies)
the file /etc/passwd has corrupted mistakenly.actually the file has saved as "oot:0:0:root:/root/sbin/bash".
first r of root has been deleted ..
can anyone tell me how can i recover as normal user (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am bit confused about UIDs on my server where LDAP athentication happens. UIDs are generally in the range of 0-65534 for any Solaris OS version(correct if i am wrong). My server is running on Solaris 9. Below are user accounts available on my server.
... (10 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have Solaris 10, latest release.
We have passwd aging set in /etc/defalut/passwd.
I have an account that passwd should never expire. Acheived by emptying associated users shadow file entries for passwd aging.
When I reset the users passwd using passwd command, it re enables... (3 Replies)
Not an unix expert, I read a few pages on the web about passwd files, but I didn't find the answers I need about the last 8 lines of the passwd file I'm taking a look at.
I'm assuming their shortcuts to another file that may have the actual usernames of users on the system.
Please, any help... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Yet another problem on one of my nodes.
I am unable to open my password file .It shows some junk alphabets.
root@ecosdp26a>cat /etc/passwd... (10 Replies)
Hi.
i have the accessibility to cat the /et/passwd file
in this file we see the paassword field but the password is in encrypted form
So, it can be possible to get the password encrypted string to convert it into human readable string via some md5 encryption code mechanism etc..
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