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Equivalent of “passwd -sa” in RHEL?
I feel a little silly having to ask this, but: In Solaris you can issue a passwd -sa command which gives you (more or less) the same output as passwd -S userName does, except it prints out the status ...
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Tracing RHEL system hack
I have an RHEL 5.7 installation in the lab and someone changed the root password (either by linux single or some other mode). I would like to identify how was it done and basically be able to identify ...
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Can I automate mounting a cifs share without storing my password in plaintext?
I currently use a script which contains commands along the lines of
sudo /sbin/mount.cifs $SERVER_SHARE $MOUNT -o username=$DOMAIN_$USER,uid=$USER,gid=$USER,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775
to mount my ...
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Getting the password expire time
Let me preface this with: I do NOT have root access available.
I recently got locked out of my account because I did not know the password expiration was getting close, then elapsed. I want to add a ...
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can we know the password for the other users if we have root access?
If a person has root access to a particular RHEL machine, will they be able to retrieve the password of the other users?
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How can we change root password?
If we don't know the root password and don't have root access to the machine, how can we change the root password?
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Preventing `passwd` for asking for the local password
I have setup the sever to only use LDAP for authentication by using authconfig-tui. Everything works well but, when I run passwd, I get two prompts for a password:
[beamin@rhel6-test-server1 ~]$ ...
