Solaris

This is fun, theses two CEO of theses big companies are dog fighting each others : Dave post: http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/netapp-sues-sun.html Johanthan answer: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/on_patent_trolling but the real (fake) truth about that post is here : http://fakeschwartz.blogspot.com/2007/09/bring-it-cowboy.html I tend to believe more NetAPP in this case, just because i don’t know how many time i have sweared on that bloody ps -aux that does not work on solaris.

If you want to generate properly encrypted password to feed to chpasswd, the most easier and proper way is to do that from command line : [code lang=“bash”] echo “encryptedpassword”|openssl passwd -1 -stdin [/code] If you want to generate in pure python you can do it like that : [code lang=“python”] def md5crypt(password, salt, magic=’$1$’): import md5 m = md5.new() m.update(password + magic + salt) # /* Then just as many characters of the MD5(pw,salt,pw) */...

Remind to myself to use the switch -64 on solaris with crle to tell the linker on solaris to get the linker ‘seeing’ 64 libraries. I wonder why everything is not as simple as linux thought where we have everything in one place with /etc/ld.so.config