Corrupted security database

From: Larry Griffith <larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:11:54 -0400

Dear Managers,

        I just installed DU 4.0 with C2 security. Due to my
stupidity, the file /etc/auth/files/auth.db was corrupted on one
client and as a result I cannot login as root except in single-user
mode. (I can login to my NIS user account in multi-user mode.)

        I rebooted in single-user mode, did a bcheckrc and then logged
in as root. I tried the edauth command, but concluded that I
obviously didn't understand it. It kept telling me there was no entry
for root. I tried convauth, which I thought would convert the ASCII
databases into a new auth.db file (using /tcb/bin/convauth -dp -v),
but it doesn't seem to work.

        Any suggestions as to how I can recover from this?

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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
PGP public key available at: http://garfield.wsc.mass.edu/dcis/griffith.html
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