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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers What happened to my user accounts? Post 18383 by jskillet on Wednesday 27th of March 2002 06:58:39 PM
Old 03-27-2002
I use the latest version of Putty and everything works fine. I can connect and logon as root just fine. I just cannot logon as any other user. This server is an FTP so none of the users can connect via FTP as well. They recieve "Logon Failed". When the system boots up, there is a message that the ytem could not read from the passwd file but the permissions on the passwd file are 444 and 400 for the shadow file. Luckily I am able to still logon as root and copy all of my files to another system. But I would still like to know if anyone has ever encountered a situation like this before. It baffles me how one minute everything works great and the next everything is broken. The last thing I did on the server before it went nuts was set some permissions on a user's home directory. I know I did a "chmod ~" on accident, but didn't think this was even a valid command so I didn't think nothing of it. Oh well, I may just have to bite the bullet on this one and re-install, but if anyone has any ideas....I would love to hear them.
 

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bsmconv(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       bsmconv(1M)

NAME
bsmconv, bsmunconv - enable or disable the Basic Security Module (BSM) on Solaris SYNOPSIS
/etc/security/bsmconv [rootdir...] /etc/security/bsmunconv [rootdir...] DESCRIPTION
The bsmconv and bsmunconv scripts are used to enable or disable the BSM features on a Solaris system. The optional argument rootdir is a list of one or more root directories of diskless clients that have already been configured. See smdiskless(1M). To enable or disable BSM on a diskless client, a server, or a stand-alone system, logon as super-user to the system being converted and use the bsmconv or bsmunconv commands without any options. To enable or disable BSM on a diskless client from that client's server, logon to the server as super-user and use bsmconv, specifying the root directory of each diskless client you wish to affect. For example, the command: myhost# bsmconv /export/root/client1 /export/root/client2 enables BSM on the two machines named client1 and client2. While the command: myhost# bsmconv enables BSM only on the machine called myhost. It is no longer necessary to enable BSM on both the server and its diskless clients. After running bsmconv the system can be configured by editing the files in /etc/security. Each diskless client has its own copy of configu- ration files in its root directory. You might want to edit these files before rebooting each client. Following the completion of either script, the affected system(s) should be rebooted to allow the auditing subsystem to come up properly initialized. FILES
The following files are created by bsmconv: /etc/security/device_maps Administrative file defining the mapping of device special files to allocatable device names. /etc/security/device_allocate Administrative file defining parameters for device allocation. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
auditconfig(1M), auditd(1M), audit_startup(1M), audit.log(4), audit_control(4), attributes(5) NOTES
bsmconv and bsmunconv are not valid in a non-global zone. SunOS 5.10 26 May 2004 bsmconv(1M)
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