To summarize:
The initial problem is the following: My NIS server is running
C2 security, as are all the clients. I now have to
do a clean install of digital unix 4.0E on the server..
the clients have already been upgraded.
The goal is to preserve a prpasswd file which has been arrived at
through much work and heartache, without losing everyone's
password in the process.
Two paths have been suggested:
One: use invsync and genufi to create a list of all files that
have been modified by the system. This can then be edited
to include only the files you want to save,
then use updmv -o to back them up,
and when the install is done, updmv -i brings them to
/var/adm/install/update
(thanks to davis_at_tessco.com) It appears like this path
will work, because everyone says that the protected net
password databases are just like any other files.
But just incase it doesn't, I'd like to have backup. Thus
we come to
Two:
Some have suggested use edauth -dp -g > temp
and edauth -dp -s < temp
to store and retrieve the database from a flat file.
While this does work for local users, it does not
work for NIS users, nor does the logical extension
edauth -dp -Ns < temp.
magill_at_isc.upenn.edu sent a much more complicated scheme
but again it doesn't work for NIS users.
So I ask one more time: Is there any way to export
an NIS-based C2 database and read it in again from a flat file?
Has anyone done it?
Steve Timm
Received on Mon May 10 1999 - 18:38:21 NZST