[Gllug] non-interactive passwd

Ian Northeast ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk
Fri May 9 00:36:51 UTC 2003


Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 22:57, Ian Northeast wrote:
> 
> > In reply to another suggestion, I would think that trying to port the
> > Linux passwd command to Solaris and especially AIX would be rather
> > problematic, as the exact format of the user database will vary. Don't
> > try this on a system which is required to work!
> 
> I don;t know about AIX, but I'd have though porting it to Solaris
> shouldn't be that hard, as both Solaris and most Linux distros use pam,
> and the code can be written to the pam interface.

You may be right here. Solaris does indeed use pam. AIX does not and it
uses some rather strange files. /etc/security/passwd anyone? I stand by
my "not required to work" though.

Regrds, Ian


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