Dear Managers,
After numerous misadventures with disk drives I've finally
upgraded my 3000/600 server to 4.0D and new disk drives. I have to do
a RIS install of 4.0D on my client stations. I can boot over the
network and get the install screen, but any attempt to choose either
"Setup done" or "Select software" yields a message that "setld -s" was
unable to initialize my server.
Prowling around on the server for a clue, I discovered that there
were numerous failed login attempts to the ris account (I use C2
security). I verified that a new attempt to install 4.0D over the
network did lead to a new failed login. From previous experience I
know that setld uses ris. I cleared the failed logins and made sure
the password was current and null (I put a non-null password back when
I reconnected to the Internet to send this message!) using edauth, but
I still can't do the RIS install.
Attempting to log into ris from my user account (which is in
group system so I can use the su - ris command) fails with the
message:
Account is retired - logins are no longer allowed
I have no idea how ris got retired in the first place and I certainly
want to "unretire" it. All attempts to do so with dxaccounts and
edauth have failed. Any ideas?
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_cs.wsc.ma.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
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Received on Wed Sep 02 1998 - 23:49:31 NZST