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Unruh wrote:

> No, that is a standard arg for passwd almost certainly also on Redhat/FC.
> But it is still not clear that this
> is what passwd -s does on HP. He does not seem to want to tell us.

Not at all. If I now had access to an HP box I could tell you... all
I DO know is that passwd -s on an HPUX box returns something like

<username> PS

wheras passwd -S on a linux box returns something like

password set, DES crypt.

a google seems to suggest that hpux man passwd includes the foillowing

-s name Display password attributes associated with the
specified name. Superuser privilege is required if
the
files repository is specified. For nisplus, there
are
no restrictions.

I do note that a solaris man passwd returns much the same info

-s name
Shows password attributes for the login name. For the
nisplus repository, this works for everyone. However
for the files repository, this only works for the
superuser. It does not work at all for the nis reposi-
tory which does not support password aging.

I know no more unfortunately, other than the script to be ported uses
passwd -s, and expects an out put similar to <username> PS.

crossposted to comp.sys.hp.hpux

cheers

ian

didds <didds2@excite.com>:

> Unruh wrote:
>
>> No, that is a standard arg for passwd almost certainly also on Redhat/FC.
>> But it is still not clear that this
>> is what passwd -s does on HP. He does not seem to want to tell us.
>
> Not at all. If I now had access to an HP box I could tell you... all
> I DO know is that passwd -s on an HPUX box returns something like
>
> <username> PS

[11:08:51 vz6tml@dewuib07:~] $ sudo passwd -r files -F /etc/NISFILES/passwd -s vz6tml
vz6tml PS 07/06/06 0 63
[11:08:53 vz6tml@dewuib07:~] $ uname -a
HP-UX dewuib07 B.11.11 U 9000/800 HP-UX

> wheras passwd -S on a linux box returns something like
>
> password set, DES crypt.

[11:09:42 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/neu/opt/tmp] $ passwd -S vz6tml
vz6tml P
[11:09:45 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/neu/opt/tmp] $ uname -a
Linux dewup-ww02 2.6.17-gentoo-r3.05 #1 SMP Mon Jul 17 15:36:34 CEST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

[11:10:10 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/neu/opt/tmp] $ sudo passwd -S root
root P 10/05/2005 0 -1 -1 -1

Hm - my "vz6tml" is NIS served from a HP-UX 11.11 master (the
dewuib07). root is of course a local account.

Alexander Skwar
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Alexander Skwar wrote:

> Hm - my "vz6tml" is NIS served from a HP-UX 11.11 master (the
> dewuib07). root is of course a local account.

Cool. I've actually lamented the lack of such a feature a few times in
Linux: it's potentially useful for exporting user passwords to other tools,
such as LDAP or Apache passwords.

Alexander Skwar wrote:
....
>
> [11:09:42 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/neu/opt/tmp] $ passwd -S vz6tml
> vz6tml P
> [11:09:45 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/neu/opt/tmp] $ uname -a
> Linux dewup-ww02 2.6.17-gentoo-r3.05 #1 SMP Mon Jul 17 15:36:34 CEST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> [11:10:10 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/neu/opt/tmp] $ sudo passwd -S root
> root P 10/05/2005 0 -1 -1 -1

gentoo is not Red Hat. It's not using Red Hat's passwd
program.

· Chris Cox <notccox@notairmail.net>:

> Alexander Skwar wrote:
> ...
>>
>> [11:09:42 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/neu/opt/tmp] $ passwd -S vz6tml
>> vz6tml P
>> [11:09:45 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/neu/opt/tmp] $ uname -a
>> Linux dewup-ww02 2.6.17-gentoo-r3.05 #1 SMP Mon Jul 17 15:36:34 CEST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>>
>> [11:10:10 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:/neu/opt/tmp] $ sudo passwd -S root
>> root P 10/05/2005 0 -1 -1 -1
>
> gentoo is not Red Hat. It's not using Red Hat's passwd
> program.

True. Debian and Ubuntu is also using the "gentoo" passwd, which
comes from the "shadow" package.

Is RH really using a different passwd? At least in FC5, shadow-utils
also is used. What provides /usr/bin/passwd in RH? Ah, I see, it's
in the passwd package.

Alexander Skwar
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-- Jean Paul