Re: hpux 10.0 remote administration

[mharrigan () cisco com (Matthew G. Harrigan)]

At 12:02 AM 7/16/96 -0600, you wrote:

> Hmmm. I have a hpux (10.01) box here. I took a brief look at it and
> a) can't see where the default (or any password) is used,
> nor b) see where sam_exec is used.

> Is sam_exec an executable
> or a system call?

sam_exec is a user created via rsh when a machine is added to the the
administration cluster on that machine.
You would see an entry in your password file
like: sam_exec:YosemiteEncrypted:0:1:....

If you only have one hpux machine, then you most likely are not
remotely administrating another one. Unless of course you have
alterior motives :).

> The documentation mentions a few things have
> been completely revised in 10.x re remote clusters etc, so if you
> could tell me precisely to look for these problems, I'll tell you
> if theyre still around

You might want to try adding your machine to the cluster list of itself.
I.E. - go into sam, and say "Remotely administrate yourself, mr. machine."
It should ask you for your root passwd once, and then go in and add sam_exec
to your passwd file. If you so this, and you get these results, please post
them to this list.

Thanks,

Matt
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