What is the new.secrets file?????

[Kevin Lamb]

Calling all HP Gurus,

I have seen the new.secrets file in /var/adm on several occasions but I have no idea what this file is or what it's use is.

The file is on HP-UX 10.20 but not on 10.01 it contains a single line ( default -sdu- )

10 points to the wizard who can tell me what this file is for as it has stumped me for months

Cheers

Kev

[John Bolene]

It is associated with file ACL's for DCE as far as I can tell.

[linuxfan]

Hi Kevin,

I don't know too much history about the /var/adm/sw/security/secrets file but i do know that it is consulted for SD-UX commands.

I have seen some issues with swinstall commands if this file is missing or doesn't have the right permissions.

-Regards
Ramesh

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Kevin,

grep new.secret /usr/sbin/pushAgent

It appears to be an internally-used password for SD.

Rgds, Robin.

[harry d brown jr]

What is a new deodorant from Procter & Gamble?

The missing link?

A religious symbol?


live free or die
harry

[Roger Baptiste]

Kevin,

the file is there on
11.00 too with the same
content under /var/adm/sw/security.

I think it is related to
swacl access control lists.
I (re)moved the file as a test
and ran swinstall/swlist.
They worked fine without the file.

Here''s a clue -
On one of my systems,
the swinstall.log file
has an old entry:
""An operation on the
/var/adm/sw/security/secrets"
ndbm(3) database failed.
The database could not be
opened, created or updated
depending on its status. check the existence and the
permissions of the file and its ndbm(3) files"'


-raj

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Kevin:

From the man (5) pages for 'sd' one notes that the /var/adm/sw/security directory contains the 'secrets' file which is used to authenticate remote requests.

Technical Knowledge Base document #A4578908 notes the methodology to recreate this file and its companions:

# mv var/adm/sw/security /var/adm/sw/security.old

# mkdir /var/adm/sw/security

# chown root /var/adm/sw/security

# chgrp root /var/adm/sw/security

# chmod 755 /var/adm/sw/security

# shutdown -ry 0

When the system reboots it recreates the security directory andthe files contained within.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Simon Abbott]

Hello,

Sorry I've no idea what the file is for but if you're the Kevin Lamb I used to work with on 'ROUTES', give us a ring, maybe we can meet up for a drink! (if not, just ignore me).

Simon Abbott.