getprpw no output

[bouserg]

Hi,

With a trusted system, I have no output with the command getprpw.

Any suggestion?

Thank's

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Echoing the return code would be very informative:

0 = success

1 = user not privileged

2 =  incorrect usage

3 =  cannot find the password file

4 =  system is not trusted

Otherwise:

If so, what do these show?

# whereis getprpw

# file <path_to_getprpw>

# ls -l <path_to_getprpw>

Regards!

...JRF...

[rariasn]

Hi:

# /usr/lbin/getprpw -l root

getprpw displays the user's protected password database settings. This command is available only to the superuser in a trusted system.

# ll -R /tcb/files/auth

# man getprpw

rgs,

[bouserg]

Hi,

echo $?:

126

whereis getprpw:

getprpw: /usr/lbin/getprpw /usr/share/man/man1m.Z/getprpw.1m

-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin              0 Jul 19 15:58 /usr/lbin/getprpw

file /usr/lbin/getprpw

/usr/lbin/getprpw:      empty

this command worked before.

I don't know why it's empty.

Regards

[Pete Randall]

You did not show us the output of "# ls -l <path_to_getprpw>" but I expect it would have said 0 bytes.  It's gone missing and you need to restore it from backup or copy it from another, similar server (i.e. same version of HP-UX, roughly the same patch level, etc.)

Correction:  I should have said "I missed seeing the ls -l output".  Not sure how I missed that!

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

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@bouserg wrote:

-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin              0 Jul 19 15:58 /usr/lbin/getprpw

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Hi (again):

And there is the reason for the lack of any output :-)

Someone (as root) or some process running as root, has truncated this binary on July 19.  If you have another server with the same, copy it in from there.  Otherwise you could look to reinstalling it from either a patch or a fileset.  To find where is comes from, do:

# swlist -l file|grep getprpw

Regards!

...JRF...

[bouserg]

thank's for your help.

I'll copy it from another server.

Regards

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@James R. Ferguson wrote:

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@bouserg wrote:

-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin              0 Jul 19 15:58 /usr/lbin/getprpw

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Hi (again):

And there is the reason for the lack of any output :-)

Someone (as root) or some process running as root, has truncated this binary on July 19.  If you have another server with the same, copy it in from there.  Otherwise you could look to reinstalling it from either a patch or a fileset.  To find where is comes from, do:

# swlist -l file|grep getprpw

Regards!

...JRF...

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@James R. Ferguson wrote:

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@bouserg wrote:

-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin              0 Jul 19 15:58 /usr/lbin/getprpw

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Hi (again):

And there is the reason for the lack of any output :-)

Someone (as root) or some process running as root, has truncated this binary on July 19.  If you have another server with the same, copy it in from there.  Otherwise you could look to reinstalling it from either a patch or a fileset.  To find where is comes from, do:

# swlist -l file|grep getprpw

Regards!

...JRF...

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