ShadowPassword - crypt ?

[Arkadiusz Baraniecki]

Hi All,

on HP-UX B.11.11 there is installed vendor tool/patch which enable using file /etc/shadow.
This is:
$ swlist | grep -i shadow
ShadowPassword B.01.00.00 HP-UX 11.11 Shadow Password Bundle.

With this tool functions crypt and bigcrypt do not work properly.
How are passwords crypted ?

Best wishes for 2007
Arek.

[Peter Godron]

Hi Arek,
and welcome to the forum.

This thread may help:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1080253

What error messages are you getting?

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

[Arkadiusz Baraniecki]

Hi Peter,

Thanks to you I found in source code my application (it's old) is checking existence of /.secure/etc/passwd instead of /etc/shadow to determine which function getspent or getpwnam should be used.
It will take some time, but I will add here message when I will confirm solution.

Best regards
Arek.