/etc/security/password

[mike]

hi

just out of curiosity, what does /etc/security/password do? is there such
a file in solaris? and is it the same as /etc/shadow?
thanks

[John England]

mike wrote:

>
> hi
>
> just out of curiosity, what does /etc/security/password do? is there such
> a file in solaris? and is it the same as /etc/shadow?
> thanks

There is a /etc/default/password and it maintains your default settings for
pasword length, min weeks, max weeks etc...

[Darren J Moffat]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:58:39 -0700, mike wrote:

> just out of curiosity, what does /etc/security/password do?

don't know.

> is there such a file in solaris?

no.

>and is it the same as /etc/shadow?

no because /etc/shadow exists and /etc/security/password (or passwd)
does not exist therefore they can't be the same.

Now Solaris does have support for an /etc/security/passwd.adjunct
file which is the /etc/shadow equivalent for NIS. It is however
not documented particulary well. Search on sunsolve.sun.com in
the InfoDocs and SRDB's collection for "yp c2 passwd.adjunct".

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[Alan Coopersmith]

[email]s99999999s2003@yahoo.com[/email] (mike) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|just out of curiosity, what does /etc/security/password do? is there such
|a file in solaris? and is it the same as /etc/shadow?

If I remember correctly (it's been a few years since I ran an AIX box),
/etc/security/passwd is roughly the AIX equivalent of Solaris
/etc/shadow (but of course in a completely alien format, since it is
AIX).

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[Tim O'Neill]

It used to be there in SunOS4.1.x, when you turned C2 security on. It did
serve the same function as /etc/shadow does now. That was a decade or so
ago.

"Alan Coopersmith" <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote in message
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> [email]s99999999s2003@yahoo.com[/email] (mike) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
> |just out of curiosity, what does /etc/security/password do? is there such
> |a file in solaris? and is it the same as /etc/shadow?
>
> If I remember correctly (it's been a few years since I ran an AIX box),
> /etc/security/passwd is roughly the AIX equivalent of Solaris
> /etc/shadow (but of course in a completely alien format, since it is
> AIX).
>
> --
> __________________________________________________ ______________________
> Alan Coopersmith [email]alanc@alum.calberkeley.org[/email]
> [url]http://www.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU/~alanc/[/url] aka: [email]Alan.Coopersmith@Sun.COM[/email]
> Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

[Jon]

I don't know if this thread is still active.

/etc/security/passwd is a legacy implementation of shadow passwords from BSD and is still in use in AIX. So yes, it has the same function as /etc/shadow in Solaris, however it does look very different from an /etc/shadow file.