Shadow password depot + HPUX 11.11 + SAP R/3 6.4C + Oracle 9.2.0.7

[Javier Montecinos]

Dear friends,

I have to install shadow passwords depot in our boxes that runs SAP 6.4C and Oracle 9.2.0.7. The O.S. is HP UX 11.11

Do you know if there is a specific issue or additional procedure to do it or just "follow the instructions"? I was wondering if it will be a piece of cake or pain in the a*... don't need to say it is a audit "must have".

Of course we will follow the test-acceptance-production boxes, but hints and reminds are really welcome.

thanks,

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Javier:

Follow the installation instructions. As noted, there are patches that must be installed along with the product itself:

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayInstallInfo.do?productNumber=ShadowPassword

I suggest that you 'swcopy' the patches or patch depot along with the ShadowPassword depot into *one*, single depot for installation with 'swinstall'. This will allow you to perform one reboot.

# swcopy -v -s BUNDLENAME -x enforce_dependencies=false \* @ /var/tmp/swdepot

Be sure to use 'enforce_dependencies=false' on the 'swcopy' but *NOT* during the 'swinstall'. Any dependencies not satisfied will cause the 'swcopy' to fail if you don't specify "false". At installation time, you *do* want failure, so specify "true" for this action, then.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Javier,

Following the instructions will work.

Note however that if you have NIS, and this box is the server, boxes without shadow passwords may have trouble signing on using NIS.

Shadow passwords is well tested, well ported and works well.

SEP

[Javier Montecinos]

The comments and hints presented by two "masters" could answer to my doubts.

thanks
Javier