cannot rebuild ttys.db on Tru64 5.1a box

From: Christopher C. Stevenson <csteven_at_kelvin.physics.mun.ca>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:46:09 -0230 (NDT)

Greetings, list

I've become used to manually entering new devices (e.g., foreign hosts
from which users connect) to be recognized under C2 security by our
various Tru64 alphas, in /etc/auth/system/devassign and ttys, then
rebuilding the databases with convauth -d v and -d t, resp. I've recently
attempted adding some remote hosts to a 5.1a machine, and while the
devassign.db build is fine, the ttys.db build *hangs*. It appears to
create a ttys.db when I ^C out of the hang, but the database doesn't work.
Copying .proto..ttys.db to provide a working ttys.db was required to at
least restore even access by root on the console (!).
 
I noticed that there is also no .proto..ttys (the asci file) in the
/etc/auth/system directories of each of the two 5.0a boxes we have. This
file exists on 4.0F DS10's we have. I've not had any trouble rebuilding
ttys.db and devassign.db on a small variety of alphas running 4.0B, D, and
F to date.

Any clues? Will summarize.

Chris
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
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