Re: Automatic password changing

["Neil D. Roberts" <koala@lander.es>]

Hi,

    Thanks for the info :) So, if there was a file like this, how would I need to
look for it ? The real issue is that there is a process which is currently doing
this in one of the office machines, and I can´t do anything about it. I tried
looking into the cron.daily - weekly and monthly, but found no little program, or
anything included in the files which appear. Any ideas ?

Thanks again :)

Alexander Hvostov wrote:

> Neil,
>
> That's a bad idea because it defeats the purpose of the password being
> there to start with. You see, the password is ordinarily encrypted and
> kept under tight safeguards, to make it hard to figure out what it is. If
> you were to reset the password periodically, you would presumably have to
> store the password without it being encrypted, which personally gives me
> the willies because of its security implications, like someone being able
> to read your password...
>
> However, it _is_ possible to copy the password, in its encrypted form,
> from a cron script, and copy it into its proper place in /etc/shadow. The
> problem with this is that it would need a parser of one sort or another --
> probably a perl script. Ask someone else for this, but I still think it's
> a bad idea security wise.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex.
>
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> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Neil D. Roberts wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >     First time on this list :) Anyway, I have a little brain cracker
> > here, or at least for me it is. Does anybody happen to know how to have
> > an automatic process which sets "roots" password every 1 hour ? What I
> > mean basically is so that when the root password gets changed
> > accidentally, this process sets it back to what it was. I figured out
> > that the only way is to make a process or a file to execute in the
> > cron.daily . But then again, I don´t know how to do that either . . .
> > Thanks for the help
> >
> > Much Respect
> >
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