Revisions to grabbing username and password hashes from /etc/security/passwd

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edited Oct 15, 2024 at 8:12

In case of an AIX system and the usernames are know, I would use another way like:

HASH=HASH=$(grep -p $USERNAME /etc/security/passwd | awk '/password/ {print $3}') echo "${USERNAME}:$HASH"

Certainly the search for "password" could be coded even more strictly.

In case of an AIX system and the usernames are know, I would use another way like:

HASH=(grep -p $USERNAME /etc/security/passwd | awk '/password/ {print $3}') echo "${USERNAME}:$HASH"

Certainly the search for "password" could be coded even more strictly.

In case of an AIX system and the usernames are know, I would use another way like:

HASH=$(grep -p $USERNAME /etc/security/passwd | awk '/password/ {print $3}') echo "${USERNAME}:$HASH"

Certainly the search for "password" could be coded even more strictly.

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edited Oct 11, 2024 at 14:37

In case of an AIX system and the usernames are know, I would use an easieranother way like:

HASH=(grep -p $USERNAME /etc/security/passwd | awk '/password/ {print $3}') echo "${USERNAME}:$HASH"

Certainly the search for "password" could be coded even more strictstrictly.

In case of an AIX system, I would use an easier way like:

grep -p $USERNAME /etc/security/passwd | awk '/password/ {print $3}'

Certainly the search for "password" could be coded even more strict.

In case of an AIX system and the usernames are know, I would use another way like:

HASH=(grep -p $USERNAME /etc/security/passwd | awk '/password/ {print $3}') echo "${USERNAME}:$HASH"

Certainly the search for "password" could be coded even more strictly.

answered Oct 9, 2024 at 13:09

In case of an AIX system, I would use an easier way like:

grep -p $USERNAME /etc/security/passwd | awk '/password/ {print $3}'

Certainly the search for "password" could be coded even more strict.

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