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What would be the equivalent check in AIX?

The problem I am having is that the $PATH variable for the process running under sudo does not reflect the “run as” user’s $PATH, rather it remains set to the calling user’s $PATH.

For example...

From a script how would I verify that the current directory (.) is not in root's path. Now when the script is going to be run the auditor wil not be signed in as root, but rather running it via...

When I run the script I have just created, I get a strange scenario around the following code:

echo "Check for duplicate UID's, each user should have a unique user ID (UID)"
echo "IF a UID is...

I have tried thought of using instfix -ivqc | grep BIND , but this did not return the result I was looking for; it seem to list out the the different patches that had been applied to BIND. I'm...

Actually I am, in this case, just looking to validate the services state.

The file has great deal of users listed, but for example

tom:
login = true
rlogin = false
ttys = /dev/console
sugroups = security,!staff
expires = 0531010090
tpath =...

I'm looking to use grep to pull up the information in the /etc/security/user file. If I use grep root /etc/security/user I'm assuming that I'll just get that one line, when I would like to get all...

I'm creating a scrip for auditing our AIX box's to ensure that they are built according to our system standards. I'm not sure on the logic for checking to see if the NIS and NIS+ services are...