/.iiim/auth/passwd on Solaris 8

Hi all,

 I noticed a strange thing on several machines in my network and in a few home directories of users
 
 a directory .iiim/auth/ and a passwd file with an encrypted line.

 I saw a posting by John Bartoszewski <[email protected]> without answers:

> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:34:07 -0600
> From: John Bartoszewski <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Usage of xiiimp.so.2
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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>A few days ago I found a /.iiim/auth/passwd on one of my machines. 
> Thinking a break in I begin an investigation. 
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>I found that /usr/openwin/lib/locale/common/xiiimp.so.2 contains 
> references to this file. I then begin to see what uses this lib. 
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>As far as I an tell nothing does. 
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>Is there a program on a standard Solaris 8 install that uses xiiimp.so.2 
> (or ximlocal.so.2 which is a link to xiiimp.so.2)? 
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>Is there any normal course of operation that would create this file? 
 


Thanks, 
 John 
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 Any ideas what it is ? 


 Thanks, Shay Weinstein.