Re: HP boxen

[Gary Flynn]

Ron DuFresne wrote:
> 
> I have a job at present that puts a number of HP boxen under my dept's
> control for locking down in a corporate env.  It's been ages since I
> played with HP's, but, I'm kinda shocked to be told that HP has yet to
> impliment even the basics of system security, namely a shadowed passwd
> system on their OS, is this information indeed correct?!

Convert the box to what HP calls a "trusted system" and you'll
get the functionality of a shadowed password file in the /auth/tcb
tree. Last time I checked you cannot reverse this process so
read up on it first.

-- 
Gary Flynn
Security Engineer - Technical Services
James Madison University

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