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Operating Systems AIX AIX system logs files Post 302967049 by Bolou on Friday 19th of February 2016 03:45:23 AM
Old 02-19-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by SkySmart
errpt is a good command to use.

also, for the location of the log file where you can find records of the items listed, look in /var/adm/. in this directory, you'll find most files you need to look into.
thks you very much, i'll see in this directory and i'll come back to you if i have to know others thing...

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Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
There are no logs as these are single commands which have a return code (and some diagnostic messages in case something goes wrong). You might want to write some script wrapper for them and write a log file yourself.

ok, but are not there a default log file locally for this ? am i neccesary obliged to make a script before ?

This is not clear enough. The fact that a password is changed is noted in /etc/security/passwd, a file in stanza format, with a lastupdate= entry. Note that this only pertains to locally authenticated users. LDAP-, Kerberos-, ... -users where the AIX system relies on some external system for the authentication do not have password-information on the system and therefore no pasword-update-information.

You might want to read up about "LAM" ("loadable authentication modules") for details.



That depends on what you want to know. The lsuser command provides information about the attributes "unsuccessful_login_count". "host_last_unsuccessful_login" and some others (issue lsuser root as root for a complete list of user attributes). You can also configure some authentication mechanisms to use the syslog facilities to write logs. There is nothing out of the box, though, because "authentication" is a loadable, configurable and quasi-external service for AIX.



Is logged in the error log. As a root user enter errpt for an overview and errpt -a for a detailed description of every entry (including shutdown/boot events).

ok, thks
I hope this helps.

bakunin
thks you for all your replies, i understand aix system logs file more and more.....
 

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passwordservice

PasswordService(8)					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					PasswordService(8)

NAME

     PasswordService -- Mac OS X Server Password Server daemon

SYNOPSIS

     PasswordService [-help | -ver]

     PasswordService [-n]

DESCRIPTION

     In the first synopsis form, PasswordService prints a usage summary or version information and quits.  In the second form, PasswordService
     acts as a password server.

     PasswordService must be run as root; it will exit otherwise. If there is another instance of PasswordService running, it will exit.

     The PasswordService daemon acts as the gatekeeper for user passwords and provides an authentication resource for all services running on the
     system. The standard way to communicate with PasswordService is to use the DirectoryService API. Services authenticate via the dsDoDirN-
     odeAuth() function call.  If the user being authenticated has an AuthenticationAuthority attribute that begins with ";ApplePasswordServer;"
     the request is routed to PasswordService for authentication. Normally, the users in an Open Directory LDAP server are managed through Pass-
     wordService.  The DirectoryService buffer formats for each authentication mechanism are documented in the DirServicesConst.h header file.
     Some of the common methods supported are: APOP, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, MS-CHAPv2, NTLMv2 and NTLMv1.

     Some authentication methods require recoverable passwords. If APOP or WEBDAV-DIGEST are enabled, the password database must contain recover-
     able passwords.

     The PasswordService daemon enforces password policies, such as the minimum number of characters allowed or when a password change is
     required. See pwpolicy(8) for more information about password policies.

     PasswordService writes three log files; the server log contains all significant activity; the replication log contains information about syn-
     chronization with other password servers; the error log contains major error conditions.

OPTIONS

     The following options are available:

     -n    Do not daemonize.

USAGE

     In typical usage, PasswordService is launched during the boot process by launchd. To start and stop PasswordService manually, use
     launchctl(8) commands.  This command updates the configuration files and effect the startup state.

FILES &; FOLDERS
     /usr/sbin/PasswordService - the password service daemon
     /Library/Logs/PasswordService/ApplePasswordServer.Error.log - the error log
     /Library/Logs/PasswordService/ApplePasswordServer.Replication.log - the replication log
     /Library/Logs/PasswordService/ApplePasswordServer.Server.log - the activity log

SEE ALSO

     mkpassdb(8) launchctl(8) pwpolicy(8)

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