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snap utility for AIX.
From: lwcashd () TROUT BIW COM (Larry W. Cashdollar)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:17:08 -0500
My friend actually brought this to my attention, the snap command is a diagnostic utlitiy for gathering system information on AIX platforms. It can only be executed by root, but it copies various system files into /tmp/ibmsupt/ under /tmp/ibmsupt/general/ you will find the passwd file with cyphertext. The danger here is if a system administrator executes snap -a as sometimes requested by IBM support while diagnosing a problem it defeats password shadowing. I would think that snap would create the directory 700 root:root. -- Larry
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