Tools or scripts to find out validate users in HP UNIX with embedded passwords.

[DharmaRao G]

Hi,

How to confirm that user password is encrypted mode, is there any tool or script to validate this?

Regards
Dr

[Dennis Handly]

>How to confirm that user password is encrypted mode

Passwords are either default, stored in /etc/passwd, Trusted, or Shadowed.

If these terms are not what you want, you will have to stop using "encrypted" and "embedded" and show us an example of what you want to find.

It seems like you are using words with a different meaning that what we understand.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Password information is "encrypted" for lack of a better word before being stored in /etc/passwd.

If you are testing that the password is complex enough to meet standards you can do what I recommended earlier and attempt to crack the password using the crack tools.

You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding here and can't seem to state a goal. If you want to make sure passwords meet standards then test them. Or enforce standards with /etc/default/security settings.

There is a man page and at least 100 ITRC forums posts that say how to do that.

sEP