Re: Command to dump/restore user info OSR5

Jeff Hyman typed (on Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:25:25PM -0400):
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| Can 'ap' be used to determine if ones password has been changed?
| especially root's password? .... other then grepping '/etc/shadow'
| for a user and checking for a change?

Not at all. 'ap' just takes a snapshot of current parameters.

Just what would you grep for in /etc/shadow to tell you that a password
had changed? The file's mtime would be more relevant, but that would
just indicate some change somewhere in, and not *which* change.

You might want to check the times recorded in /tcb/files/auth/r/root.

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JP
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