Help: NIS+ screwed-up!

2007-12-25 10:26:00

Hi managers!

Well, I didn't wait for your responses (I figured I couldn't even

receive mail with root not being able to see the passwd table!) and

fixed the problem. I just reverted to the old root password (why could

I do this - I shouldn't be able to re-use old passwords, should I?),

took last night's backup tape and restored the /var/nis directory as

well as /etc/.rootkey. Problem solved.

Thanks to Rasana for pointing me to SunSolve SRDB ID 15047. I found

that I took the first one of the two solutions they offer! The second

one was dumping all tables to files and recreating the namespace...

Bottom line: better get your backup straight when you are adventurous

enough to use NIS+ ;-)

But I think this is how it is supposed to be: when you couldn't even

lock out yourself how can you expect to lock out a cracker?

Thanks for your time

Steffen.

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