topic Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users in Operating System - HP-UX

modprpw -V not refreshing all users

Todd Bowden — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:56:24 GMT

To all,

Im trying to run /usr/lbin/modprpw -V on HP-UX 11.31 and its not refreshing the "spwchg" to the current time, however the -v works. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue?

Todd

Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users

Viktor Balogh — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:46:13 GMT

how about '/usr/lbin/modprpw -l -v' ?

Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users

Viktor Balogh — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:48:01 GMT

Also check the return value with 'echo $?'

RETURN VALUE

0 Success.
1 User not privileged.
2 Incorrect usage.
3 Can not find the entry or file.
4 Can not change the entry.
5 Not a Trusted System.
6 Not a NIS+ user.

Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users

Todd Bowden — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:34:33 GMT

I will say that /usr/lbin/modprpw -v works.

Here is the return code from /usr/lbin/modprpw -l -V

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -l -V
# echo $?
0

Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users

Tim Nelson — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:16:35 GMT

if worst comes to worst.

awk -F : '$3 > 100 {print $1}' /etc/passwd |while read username
do
modprpw -V $username
done

Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users

Viktor Balogh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:20:07 GMT

@Tim:

-v is for setting it individually
-V is for all users at once

so:

awk -F : '$3 > 100 {print $1}' /etc/passwd |while read username
do
modprpw -v $username
done

(ok, I also mixed it in my first post)

Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users

Viktor Balogh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:23:00 GMT

@Todd:

Do you have NIS or NIS+? Or other central authentication method? That's why I suggested the -l switch. According to the return value it should have been worked. Did it?

What does pwck spit out? Maybe there is an inconsistency with your user database.

Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users

Todd Bowden — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:49:42 GMT

NIS or NIS+ is not running.

My only errors with "pwck" are about login directories not being found. So are you telling me that on your system /usr/lbin/modprpw -V works. I have tried this on 2 systems running 2 different versions of HP-UX and it doesnt work.

Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users

TARUN SHARMA_1 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:49:53 GMT

have you checked all the users, After modprpw -V ?

Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users

Todd Bowden — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:08:45 GMT

That is the first thing I checked.

Re: modprpw -V not refreshing all users

Viktor Balogh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:36:30 GMT

>So are you telling me that on your system /usr/lbin/modprpw -V works.

No, I'm not telling you this. I don't have a trusted 11.31 testserver to try this out. I am only trying to give you some advice that might be useful.