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03-02-2018

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For what reason do you wish to go trusted?
I ask you because using a shadow password is not standard under HP-UX ( it might have changed since I have no new boxes since 2010...) in other words you had an optional package for shadow password when going trusted is native... So what made you or whoever decide for shadow password? Because the reason may still be valid.
I had a server using shadow passwd, because of a software not being able to find the passwords in trusted mode ( I cant remember what it was, sorry...).
the reason you have to use pwunconv is to put back the passwords in /etc/passwd in order to be removed by the conversion and create the adequate files in ...
Found this:

Quote:

HP-UX PHI11i3 has the following requirements and restrictions:
Requires HP-UX 11i version 3.
Can be installed only on systems with shadowed passwords (that is, with passwords stored in the /etc/shadow file).

in:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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putpwent

putpwent(3C)															      putpwent(3C)

NAME

       putpwent() - write password file entry

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       is  the	inverse  of  (see getpwent(3C)).  Given a pointer to a structure as created by or writes a line on the stream f, which matches the
       format of

       ignores the audit ID and audit flag in the structure; and create the corresponding entries used in the protected  password  database,  used
       for  trusted  systems.	which produces entries that match the trusted password database file format, must be used to create these entries.
       See getprpwent(3).

DIAGNOSTICS

       returns non-zero if an error was detected during its operation; otherwise it returns zero.

WARNINGS

       HP-UX 11i Version 3 is the last release to support trusted systems functionality.

FILES

       System Password file

SEE ALSO

       getpwent(3C), getprpwent(3), passwd(4), prpwd(4), stdio(3S), fopen(3S), thread_safety(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

																      putpwent(3C)