[Gllug] non-interactive passwd

Murray Peterson murray at orcas.net
Fri May 9 09:12:30 UTC 2003


Hi,

> > 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.

yes, that is the equiv of the shadow. And while AIX does implement shadow
passwords, that is about where the similarity ends.

thanks for all the info though!

Murray



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