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1. Solaris
Hi,
I might be stupid here to ask such question but I was just curious on ssh login to unix boxes (solaris).
When we login to unix box, it asks for password, but while typing the password, the password characters (like asterik or anything) seems hidden.
why it is so?
Thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: snchaudhari2
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2. AIX
Does anyone know when AIX started using /etc/security/passwd instead of /etc/passwd to store encrypted passwords? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Anne Neville
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Gurus,
I have small issue...
I used to pass the passwd for sudo commands like below,
gzcat ~/passwd.gz | sudo su - <villin> >> eof
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eof
And it was able to login into "villin" sudo account successfully. But now, I'm using the same in another script for the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: raghu.iv85
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4. Solaris
Hi Folks,
I have Solaris 10, latest release.
We have passwd aging set in /etc/defalut/passwd.
I have an account that passwd should never expire. Acheived by emptying associated users shadow file entries for passwd aging.
When I reset the users passwd using passwd command, it re enables... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: BG_JrAdmin
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5. Solaris
I have turned off PermitEmptyPasswords in sshd_config, but a user with empty passwd (deleted by passwd -d user) can still login without password, why? it is big security concern, linux doesn't have the issue.
$ uname -a
SunOS 5.10 Generic_118855-14 i86pc i386 i86pc
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Discussion started by: honglus
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6. Solaris
Hello All,
How to force user to change his login passwd on his first login in solaris 10 ?
while adding user do we need to set the password in theis case?? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: saurabh84g
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I want to know all the locks on a file - read, write etc acquired by various processes. Is there any way to know ? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: radiatejava
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8. Linux
Hi there!
Can someone please tell me what is for the directory /etc/locks and provide me with an example. I certainly don't understand it very well.
Any help will be much appreciated! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: agasamapetilon
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9. HP-UX
Hi,
How to list the files which are not locked?
I want to read the files that are not locked by other user only.
can we do it using ls option? (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: vijaykrc
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10. HP-UX
Is there any way to login to another server with out getting prompted for the password? Is there a way to embed the password in a script and use either telnet or rlogin (or some other prg)?
I need to do some file manipulation on several servers for out ORACLE 10g RAC and need to automated so... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: vslewis
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