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Operating Systems HP-UX passwd file corrupted Post 67099 by jospap on Monday 21st of March 2005 02:06:20 PM

03-21-2005

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Originally Posted by Perderabo

C2 refers to a level of trusted systems. I believe that you may actually be running a B level version of HP-UX which has military grade security features. I have some experience with 10.0 at C2 and it didn't behave like your system is. I'm not sure how much I can help you, but I do have a couple of ideas.

What does "The weird thing is that I changed the passwords for other users as well and have acheived the same results." mean? That these accounts are also screwed up? Can you login as any user?

There is a problem that you may have stumbled into: according to the termio man page, the default ERASE character is # and the default KILL character is @. There are ways to change these defaults, but unless you did, neither character will be a reasonable choice for use in a password. In a shell where you have changed your ERASE and KILL characters, they will work with the su command. But they won't work with a login prompt. If this is your problem, you may be able to login as an ordinary user, change your ERASE and KILL characters, and then su to root. You might give this a try.

This sounds like my systems.

I was doing a password reset for all my users. I tested the accounts multiple times, but none of them work. I cannot login to the workstation from the login prompt with any user acct. I think I am screwed.

The termino issue sounds like it may have a hand in the problem, as my root does have those characters in it, but my users do not.

Oh well, thanks for the help.

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vipw

vipw(8) 						      System Manager's Manual							   vipw(8)

NAME

       vipw,vigr - edit the password, group or shadow file

SYNOPSIS

       vipw [-g|-p|-s]
       vigr [-g|-p|-s]

DESCRIPTION

       vipw/vigr  edits the passwd,group or shadow file after setting the appropriate locks to prevent file corruption. vipw edits per default the
       /etc/passwd file, vigr the /etc/group file.  Extended attributes (like ACLs or security attributes) are preserved.

ENVIRONMENT

       EDITOR If the environment variable exists, the editor specified by this variable is used instead of the default vi(1).

OPTIONS

       -g, --group
	      Edit /etc/group.

       -p, --passwd
	      Edit /etc/passwd.

       -s, --shadow
	      Edit /etc/shadow.

       -u, --usage
	      Print a usage message and exit.

	   --help
	      Print a more verbose help text and exit.

       Print version information and exit.

FILES

       /etc/group  - group account information
       /etc/passwd - user account information
       /etc/shadow - shadow account information

SEE ALSO

       attr(5), passwd(1), passwd(5), shadow(5), vi(1)

AUTHOR

       Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>

pwdutils							   October 2003 							   vipw(8)

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