Is there any way to login to another server with out getting prompted for the password? Is there a way to embed the password in a script and use either telnet or rlogin (or some other prg)?
I need to do some file manipulation on several servers for out ORACLE 10g RAC and need to automated so... (4 Replies)
Hi,
How to list the files which are not locked?
I want to read the files that are not locked by other user only.
can we do it using ls option? (5 Replies)
Hi there!
Can someone please tell me what is for the directory /etc/locks and provide me with an example. I certainly don't understand it very well.
Any help will be much appreciated! (1 Reply)
Hello All,
How to force user to change his login passwd on his first login in solaris 10 ?
while adding user do we need to set the password in theis case?? (7 Replies)
I have turned off PermitEmptyPasswords in sshd_config, but a user with empty passwd (deleted by passwd -d user) can still login without password, why? it is big security concern, linux doesn't have the issue.
$ uname -a
SunOS 5.10 Generic_118855-14 i86pc i386 i86pc
... (8 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)
Hi Gurus,
I have small issue...
I used to pass the passwd for sudo commands like below,
gzcat ~/passwd.gz | sudo su - <villin> >> eof
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eof
And it was able to login into "villin" sudo account successfully. But now, I'm using the same in another script for the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I might be stupid here to ask such question but I was just curious on ssh login to unix boxes (solaris).
When we login to unix box, it asks for password, but while typing the password, the password characters (like asterik or anything) seems hidden.
why it is so?
Thanks (3 Replies)
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authen::simple::passwd
Authen::Simple::Passwd(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Authen::Simple::Passwd(3pm)NAME
Authen::Simple::Passwd - Simple Passwd authentication
SYNOPSIS
use Authen::Simple::Passwd;
my $passwd = Authen::Simple::Passwd->new(
path => '/etc/passwd'
);
if ( $passwd->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
# successfull authentication
}
# or as a mod_perl Authen handler
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
PerlModule Authen::Simple::Passwd
PerlSetVar AuthenSimplePasswd_path "/etc/passwd"
<Location /protected>
PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::Passwd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Area"
Require valid-user
</Location>
DESCRIPTION
Authenticate against a passwd file.
METHODS
* new
This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:
* path Path to passwd file to authenticate against. Any standard passwd file that has records seperated with newline and fields seper-
ated by ":" is supported. First field is expected to be username and second field, plain or encrypted password. Required.
path => '/etc/passwd'
path => '/var/www/.htpasswd'
* flock A boolean to enable or disable the usage of "flock()". Defaults to "d_flock" in Config.
flock => 0
* log Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".
log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::Passwd')
* authenticate( $username, $password )
Returns true on success and false on failure. Authentication attempts with a username that begins with a hyphen "-" will always return
false.
SEE ALSO
Authen::Simple.
Authen::Simple::Password.
passwd(5).
AUTHOR
Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.8.8 2008-03-01 Authen::Simple::Passwd(3pm)