1. If you are a root and you trying to hide the password from other users, give 400 permission to that flat file.
2. If you have a DB available, create a table and store the password into it rather having that in a flat file.
3. Try your own encoding algorithm something like this. convert your passwd into some code, store it and decode with your logic again.
I'm calling a program with a command line arguement containing a password. while the process is running anyone on the system can ps -ef and see the password. Is there a way to prevent this from happening.
example
PROGRAM USERNAME/PASSWD
I've also tried
PROGRAM `cat passfile`
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Is there anyone who knows how to hide an IP from being logged by the site you are visiting. I know of some paid companies but I am looking for a different solution. Is there some way in UNIX to mask the ip.
Help this is urgent.
Datopdog (1 Reply)
Hello,
I am trying to figure out away to hide a command from users when performing a ps check. I have a ksh that purges a table in a database. If I perform a >ps -eaf |grep ksh, I get the login id and password. I do not want other users seeing this. Is there a way to hide this. The login... (5 Replies)
Can Anybody please help me with the command in Unix/Linux which can help me hide the files which is equal to ATTRIB in DOS
Not using . , but any commands in unix which will do this
if you any script which will do this ,it will be very helpful
Its very URGENT
Regards
Victor (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have a simple script to ftp from unix to a mainframe to get and put files. Currently I have the password setup in a VARS file and dereference the var in my script. Doing it this way allws me to change the password in only one place but it is still viewable for many people. Is there any... (6 Replies)
Hello. A bit of a puzzle here:
I have a 3rd party executable, which requires the following parameters:
parm1 = program_name, parm2=userid/password, parm3=additional flags.
We tried passing password as a variable, but you can do grep, and see what the password actually is
I found a bit... (2 Replies)
Hello all ,
I looked up this site for solutions to hide login info from ps -ef | grep like using a seperate file and store the password in that especially for oracle sqlplus scripts.
I just got this thought , But dont know how to implement this in UNIX.
Is there a way to revoke access from... (17 Replies)
class B
{
public:
void fns(void){//base def;}
};
class D:public B
{
public:
void fns(void) {//new def;}
};
I was thinking the above is overriding but somewhere else i found the above is just hiding.Only virtual functions can be considered as overriding?
This is the exact statement ... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I currently have a UNIX script with a function that uses a username and password to connect to the database, retrieve some information and then exit.
At the moment, am getting the username and password from a hidden plain text file and permission set to -r--------, i.e. read only to who... (1 Reply)
Not sure on the description, but here is a quick rundown.
I have 2 servers, we'll call them
serverA
serverB
On serverB, I am calling a script that inside it has the following:
ssh srvdsadm@serverB sudo -u dsadm /opt/apps/DataStage/scripts/autoDeploy.sh ${projName} ${subProjVar}... (1 Reply)
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pwconv
pwconv(1M) System Administration Commands pwconv(1M)NAME
pwconv - installs and updates /etc/shadow with information from /etc/passwd
SYNOPSIS
pwconv
DESCRIPTION
The pwconv command creates and updates /etc/shadow with information from /etc/passwd.
pwconv relies on a special value of 'x' in the password field of /etc/passwd. This value of 'x' indicates that the password for the user is
already in /etc/shadow and should not be modified.
If the /etc/shadow file does not exist, this command will create /etc/shadow with information from /etc/passwd. The command populates
/etc/shadow with the user's login name, password, and password aging information. If password aging information does not exist in
/etc/passwd for a given user, none will be added to /etc/shadow. However, the last changed information will always be updated.
If the /etc/shadow file does exist, the following tasks will be performed:
Entries that are in the /etc/passwd file and not in the /etc/shadow file will be added to the /etc/shadow file.
Entries that are in the /etc/shadow file and not in the /etc/passwd file will be removed from /etc/shadow.
Password attributes (for example, password and aging information) that exist in an /etc/passwd entry will be moved to the correspond-
ing entry in /etc/shadow.
The pwconv command can only be used by the super-user.
FILES
/etc/opasswd
/etc/oshadow
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO passwd(1), passmgmt(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), attributes(5)DIAGNOSTICS
pwconv exits with one of the following values:
0 SUCCESS.
1 Permission denied.
2 Invalid command syntax.
3 Unexpected failure. Conversion not done.
4 Unexpected failure. Password file(s) missing.
5 Password file(s) busy. Try again later.
6 Bad entry in /etc/shadow file.
SunOS 5.11 9 Mar 1993 pwconv(1M)