andrew@teslab.lab.OZ (Andrew Phillips) (04/05/91)
Being a somewhat inexperienced system administrator I was interested to read in an article recently about what others use in their tasks. The following five programs seemed to be very useful: perl expect ofiles top cops I got perl and cops from comp.unix.* but I don't remember having seen the others there. I was wondering where I can get them. Also we don't have crypt, presumably because we have a non-U.S. version of UNIX. This is very annoying when using cops as we can't do any checks on how good the passwords are. Is there source to crypt() around that we can use? Also do all Unices give the same encrypted string for the same word (assuming the salt is the same)? If not I would need to modify it to give the same encryption that our login/passwd use. Andrew. -- Andrew Phillips (andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au) Phone +61 (Aust) 2 (Sydney) 289 8712
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (04/09/91)
In article <1226@teslab.lab.OZ>, andrew@teslab.lab.OZ (Andrew Phillips) writes: |> The following five programs seemed to be very useful: |> |> perl |> expect |> ofiles |> top |> cops |> |> I got perl and cops from comp.unix.* but I don't remember having seen |> the others there. I was wondering where I can get them. Expect is in /pub/expect.shar.Z on ftp.uu.net. You also need tcl, which is in /pub/tcl.tar.Z on the same machine. They're also archived on several sites in Australia, including ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (/pub/expect.shar.Z, /pub/tcl.tar.Z), brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (/pub/expect/expect.shar.Z, /pub/expect/tcl.tar.Z), mungarra.asis.unimelb.edu.au (/pub/expect/expect.tar.Z), Ofiles is, indeed, in the comp.sources.unix archives, in volume 18 under ofiles.new. It's also accessible on the following Australia archive sites, aside from comp.sources.unix achive sites: csc2.anu.edu.au (/pub/src/applications/ofiles.tar.Z), sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (/pub/sun-sources/ofiles.shar). Top can be found on the following archive sites in Australia: sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (/pub/top.tar.Z), monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (/pub/top.tar.Z). For more information, you can do what I did to find out all of this -- telnet to quiche.cs.mcgill.ca and log in as "archie" with no password; type "help" at that point for more information. If you don't have telnet access to North America, you can send mail to "archie@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca" to contact archie -- send a message with "help" in the body for more information. |> Also we don't have crypt, presumably because we have a non-U.S. |> version of UNIX. I was under the impression that non-US sites have the crypt(3) library function but not the crypt(1) program, and the former is what you need. Isn't that correct? What vendor's Unix are you running, and what version? -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710