From: Darryl Cook (dlc@cs.appstate.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 12:49:57 EDT
As Ann kindly pointed out, after the upgrade for some reason the system
had turned off Enhanced Security. When I ran the rcmgr get SECURITY
command it came back blank....you would think it would have BASE or
ENHANCED at least but after turning it back on everything seems back to
normal.
thanks,
darryl cook
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Ann Majeske wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You didn't say, but it sounds like you're running Enhanced Security.
> A couple quick things to look at.
>
> - Make sure that the upgrade didn't somehow turn off Enhanced
> Security
> - Make sure you have the line auth=local,yp in the svc.conf file.
> - The protected password information for NIS users is in the
> NIS prpasswd map, not the auth.db file. So, check that the
> auth.db file is there and that the NIS make file builds and distributes
> the prpasswd map.
>
> Ann
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darryl Cook" <dlc@cs.appstate.edu>
> To: "Tru64 Mailing List" <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:45 AM
> Subject: trouble with upgrade to 5.1b
>
>
> > I need a little help with the upgrade from 5.1 to 5.1b this
> > morning......everything seems to have gone fine except that NIS users
> > cant login. If I change their password they are fine but there are
> > literally several hundred of them so I dont want to change them all by
> > hand :-) I looked at the /var/tcb/files/auth.db file and it is still
> > intact so I dont think it was overwritten. The /etc/passwd has the +:
> > at the end so it should be looking there and in fact does because once
> > I changed my own password I can login again. If I go into dxaccounts
> > and click on a NIS user it tells me the account is locked because the
> > user has no password. I know its something trivial but........any
> > help appreciated.
> >
> > thanks,
> > darryl
> >
> >
>
Darryl Cook 828-262-2296
Systems Programmer - Computer Science Dept
Appalachian State University - Boone, NC 28608
dlc@cs.appstate.edu
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