/etc/default directory

[James A. Donovan]

Is there any HPUX documentation available on what files could possibly exist in this directory, and what effects they would have on the system?

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

I have this for 11i, but no document that I know of:

# ls -l /etc/default
total 4
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 11 Aug 13 15:06 fs
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 67 Nov 9 2000 useradd
# cat /etc/default/*
LOCAL=vxfs
#default useradd options
HOMEDIR /home
GROUPID 20
INACT -1
EXPIRE
#


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harry

[harry d brown jr]

there is also (via searching with google)

/etc/default/security
/etc/default/tz
/etc/default/login


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harry

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Jim
Some more info:-
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/onlinedocs.py?mpn=B2355-90696&service=hpux&path=../B2355-90696/00/01/111&title=HP-UX%20Reference%20%28Volume%208%20of%209%29

Paula

[James A. Donovan]

....yeah, I've seen everything mentioned so far...and believe me there is quite a bit more that could be in the directory that hasnt been mentioned by anyone yet.

I know that different flavors of unix use the directory to house files that contain variables affecting the "default" behavior of different commands and system calls. I was just hoping that HP (or someone) had put together an extensive list of specifically what functions/commands are affected by entries in the /etc/default directory.

For instance, check out the patch description for PHCO_21833. In there you will see that now if you touch a file called "I_ACCEPT_RESPONSIBILITY_FOR_BYPASSING_SECURITY_CHECKS" in the /etc/default directory you can create login accounts with more than 8 characters in the name.

It would be nice to have a unified document of all options available to us when it comes to this directory