Thus far, the only real mention of “passadmin” I’ve found is coincidentally another post here on the forums;
written by Martin Zimmer, it was apparently on QUICS, presumably all other traces lost to the ether -_-
I realized passadmin is actually called out in the /config/sys.opt.tcp file, but I can’t perceive/discern what effect it has on anything, or where/when, as far as these systems’ normal operation.
Not sure if the order of operations makes a big difference, but the sys.init file loads any sys.opt.* files after passon is executed, so QNX’s own password feature is triggered before this other password utility.
I did try removing passon from sys.init and putting passadmin in its place, but I couldn’t seem to get it to honor the passwords for the test accounts I made; you could log in without using a password for any user that had a corresponding folder in the /user/ directory, but it seemed indifferent to passwords.
Thinking back a couple weeks ago, I don’t think I had realized passadmin was also called out in sys.opt.tcp, so I may go back and toy with it now that I have some time again…
@Tim
had the network guys try to figure out why my telnet connection kept dropping, and it turns out the static IP I had been given for my QNX test machine was also being used by a machine elsewhere in the facility. Not sure how they didn’t have a list of active IPs but after getting reassigned, my connection doesn’t drop out.
They did not explicitly test on port 21 but they said they don’t see any filtering, and if I’m able to successfully ftp in one direction, it should work the other direction as well. Still digging for a little more confirmation, but i’m going to tentatively assume that I either still haven’t gotten something configured quite right, or perhaps this ftpd and the stuff in the /etc/ folder is potentially just vestiges of whatever else they ported the tcp function from.