topic Re: Need a confirmation in Operating System - HP-UX

Need a confirmation

Dewa Negara_4 — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:53:50 GMT

Hi All,

I just curios with my IQ/OQ template for my system. One of security items mention that "Verify creation of /.secure/etc/passwd with * in passwd field:File exists with * in passwd field". Is /.secure/etc/passwd file is really exist? or it's just a wrong type because it should be /etc/passwd? Because as long as I know that directory /.secure/etc is for system audit purpose and there is no file passwd under this directory. Anyone can help to confirm? Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
Negara

Re: Need a confirmation

Michael Tully — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 22:31:08 GMT

From what I recall with this, I thought this file was only for HPUX 9.x and 10.x systems. From what I can find, this has all been superceded by the use of the trusted system database all situated under /tcb
The link below more or less states this.
http://hp.cso.uiuc.edu/docs/presentation.html#passwd

Re: Need a confirmation

Sunil Sharma_1 — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:12:44 GMT

Hi,

/.secure/etc/passwd file is part of HPUX 9.x trusted system. 10.x onwards it has been changed.

please go through this doc for more info.

http://wwwpdp.web.cern.ch/wwwpdp/ose/file/hpux10/UNX1000294.html

Sunil

Re: Need a confirmation

Dewa Negara_4 — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:19:46 GMT

Hi All,

Thank you very much for your great information. It looks fine for me now.

Thanks and Have a nice day.

Best Regards,
Negara