Thank you to everyone for their responses :
Mark Vallee
Jim Belonis
Alan_at_nabeth.cxo.cpqcorp.net
Pat O'Brien
J Bacher
Bryan Williams
Carl Riches
Raul Sossa
In short, I created the problem myself, I was trying to install some
software off of the OCCS disk
and I loaded the IASS disk mistakenly and ran the install program. I
thought I stopped the install in
time, guess not.
As for the account taking over my oracle account, this was due to iass being
a local account, and oracle
is a NIS account, and they both had the same uid of 100. Once I removed the
iass account ( Not commented (#) out !! )
everything is back to normal, at least I hope so.
Looks like the IASS install program does not check to see if a uid has been
assigned, locally or through NIS.
Again thank you to all for your quick responses.
Darren
Original Question
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On one of my test servers I installed Oracle8.1.7 under the "oracle"
account. Everything has been working for the past couple of months, the
other day I noticed a
new account called "iass".
So today I looked into it a little further, and it appears to have taken
over my "oracle" account.
1. When I log in as oracle, and do a "whoami" it comes back as "iass"
2. All my oracle files are now owned by iass
3. In passwd, the account oracle had been replace with iass.
4. iass is a local account, it is not located within my NIS database.
I then tried to comment out the iass account, which created a whole pile of
problems, the ownership
of everything turned to #iass.
I removed the account from passwd, and the ownership of the files has
returned to "oracle"
This has to be a configuration issue someplace,but I don't know the first
place to look, I can
find no instance of iass in the /etc directory. This is Tru64 5.1.
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