Re: HP Unix Root Password

From: Chris Calabrese (chris_calabrese_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/25/04

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    vacant_z@hotmail.com (Russ) wrote in message news:<ea45dce1.0406250559.6e5213fd@posting.google.com>...
    > I have a HP-UX box running in trusted mode, therefore all passwords in
    > /etc/passwd are represented by * and are stored in an encrypted db....
    > all of the entries are stored like this except for ROOT which is the
    > only entry which has an encrypted string representing the password...
    > which I think is really BAD, but was wondering if there were
    > legitiamate reasons for doing this

    This is very curious since this is NOT the default for HP-UX systems
    running in Trusted Mode (and I checked systems running 10.20, 11.00,
    and 11.11 just to make sure).

    I suggest contacting HP support about how to address this.

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