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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers AIX version selection Post 303035884 by bakunin on Thursday 6th of June 2019 01:45:56 PM
Old 06-06-2019
Hey, Michael! Great to see you back again!

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Originally Posted by MichaelFelt
As to upgrade - I agree that staying with AIX 7.1 is better than a leap to AIX 7.2 - there are also a lot of packaging changes that just make it 'different' from what is was for decennia.
M-a-n-y t-h-a-n-k-s !! This is what i was what i just tried to tell some, ahem, colleagues (for lack of a more fitting term) after sitting through them showing us some copied marketing material (you probably know the type: "live update ability: AIX 7.1 no, AIX 7.2 yes", etc.. We don't even have LPM and we don't know what this "live update" is anyway, but we want the product with more bullets in the bullet list.) I am glad to see this my personal impression confirmed by someone else.

My personal impression (based only on my own experience) is that 7.2 is going to be similar to 5.2 (and 4.2.x before that): they changed many things in AIX back then and they are changing a lot of things now, It takes time for these new feature to mature and this is why i shy away from all the 7.2 TLs and use 7.1.x instead for now. I suppose once they bring AIX 7.3 (or however it will be named, maybe AIX 8) it will perhaps be with all these features and stable too.

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Originally Posted by MichaelFelt
I also recommend you visit the FLRT site (Fix Level Recommendation Tool) - FLRT - Fix Level Recommendation Tool
Very good advice, indeed.

All the best and i hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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PASSWD(1SSL)							      OpenSSL							      PASSWD(1SSL)

NAME
openssl-passwd, passwd - compute password hashes SYNOPSIS
openssl passwd [-help] [-crypt] [-1] [-apr1] [-aixmd5] [-5] [-6] [-salt string] [-in file] [-stdin] [-noverify] [-quiet] [-table] [-rand file...] [-writerand file] {password} DESCRIPTION
The passwd command computes the hash of a password typed at run-time or the hash of each password in a list. The password list is taken from the named file for option -in file, from stdin for option -stdin, or from the command line, or from the terminal otherwise. The Unix standard algorithm crypt and the MD5-based BSD password algorithm 1, its Apache variant apr1, and its AIX variant are available. OPTIONS
-help Print out a usage message. -crypt Use the crypt algorithm (default). -1 Use the MD5 based BSD password algorithm 1. -apr1 Use the apr1 algorithm (Apache variant of the BSD algorithm). -aixmd5 Use the AIX MD5 algorithm (AIX variant of the BSD algorithm). -5 -6 Use the SHA256 / SHA512 based algorithms defined by Ulrich Drepper. See <https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt>. -salt string Use the specified salt. When reading a password from the terminal, this implies -noverify. -in file Read passwords from file. -stdin Read passwords from stdin. -noverify Don't verify when reading a password from the terminal. -quiet Don't output warnings when passwords given at the command line are truncated. -table In the output list, prepend the cleartext password and a TAB character to each password hash. -rand file... A file or files containing random data used to seed the random number generator. Multiple files can be specified separated by an OS- dependent character. The separator is ; for MS-Windows, , for OpenVMS, and : for all others. [-writerand file] Writes random data to the specified file upon exit. This can be used with a subsequent -rand flag. EXAMPLES
% openssl passwd -crypt -salt xx password xxj31ZMTZzkVA % openssl passwd -1 -salt xxxxxxxx password $1$xxxxxxxx$UYCIxa628.9qXjpQCjM4a. % openssl passwd -apr1 -salt xxxxxxxx password $apr1$xxxxxxxx$dxHfLAsjHkDRmG83UXe8K0 % openssl passwd -aixmd5 -salt xxxxxxxx password xxxxxxxx$8Oaipk/GPKhC64w/YVeFD/ COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>. 1.1.1a 2018-12-18 PASSWD(1SSL)
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