My email address is tom_popovic_at_hotmail.com
- thanks, Tom.
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> From: Popovich, Tom
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 8:13 PM
> To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> Subject: If you are running release 4.0g can you run the following
> commands against your /usr/bin/passwd
>
> On a user's 4.0g system, we are having trouble with the passwd command. I
> have received some
> information that there may be a patch, but searching all the 4.0g patches
> turned up nothing.
>
> Symptom: when you do: # passwd FooBar
> nothing happens, it does not hang, it simply gives you back the shell
> prompt: #
> It never prompts for any password.
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem?
>
> Can you compare our binary to yours?
>
> How to compare our binary to yours:
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Its easy to do, if we compare checksums.
>
> To make it easy to compare our /usr/bin/passwd against yours, here is what
> I did: I ran sum
> on passwd and the c-runtime-lib. If you run command "ldd" on
> /usr/bin/passwd you will see that
> it depends on the C lib.
>
> 1. below you will see our sum output.
> 2. can you compare to your output from sum to ours?
> 3. if you get different values for the /usr/bin/passwd command on 4.0g,
> can you email me the /usr/bin/passwd
> binary [its only 16k bytes in size].
>
> ==> details
>
> Commands to compute checksum data:
> To quickly verify if the passwd file differs from our system, you can use
> the sum command.
> The SUM {checksum} data regarding the version of passwd command on your
> system can be obtained like this:
>
> do : NOTE: the password command "passwd" may be only readable from the
> root account
> also note that emailing the passwd command is perfectly safe as it has
> no useraccount or
> password data from the system.
>
> %
> % su -
> # sum /usr/bin/passwd
> # ^D
> %
> sum of passwd on the system having a problem returns=> 45835 32
>
> passwd uses the C run time library. You can see this by running command:
>
> #
> # ldd /usr/bin/passwd
> #
>
> If you run sum on the library, can they compare to :
> sum std-C-library => 58345 3268
> and tell us if its different?
>
Received on Thu Jun 12 2003 - 05:39:02 NZST