How to tell if a system is trusted?

[David Yandry]

Hello HPUX experts,

Can anyone tell me a reliable way to tell if a system is a trusted system or not in a shell script?

Thanks,
David

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Well, I would say the "best" answer is to mimic the action of the iscomsec() system call since that is what the OS would do.

if [[ -f /tcb/files/auth/system/default ]]
then
echo "I is trusted"
else
echo "I a\'int"
fi

Man 2 iscomsec for details.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Well, I would say the "best" answer is to mimic the action of the iscomsec() system call since that is what the OS would do.

if [[ -f /tcb/files/auth/system/default ]]
then
echo "I is trusted"
else
echo "I a\'int"
fi

Man 2 iscomsec for details.

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Check if you have the /tcb directory
with more directorys and files.
In your /etc/passwd on the password field you will see * and not encripted string -
that's mean that you in trusted mode.

Also you can run SAM and there you have trusted mode so you will see if you can activate or disable

Caesar

[K.Vijayaragavan.]

Enclosing URL for an already existing discussion on this regard.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x8a8f44f56197d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi David,

Another way -

/usr/lbin/getprpw $LOGNAME > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? != 0 ]
then
echo "System is not trusted"
else
echo "System is trusted"
fi

-Sri