topic Re: Trusted system in Operating System - HP-UX

Trusted system

Shahul — Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:15:18 GMT

Hi Admins

I want to convert one D class server to trusted system. But when I tried thru SAM, It is giving an error like this.

converting to a trusted system
The attempt to convert this system to a
trusted system failed.
The command returns value was "-1" and
the standard error output was:
Can't write protected database; passwd
file unchanged.

Can anyone throw some light to this?

Shahul

Re: Trusted system

Rainer von Bongartz — Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:24:55 GMT

Try this :

1. To fix this first check password file by doing:

pwck /etc/passwd

if pwck complains about a bad character for one
of the logins remove this

2. try converting again

Re: Trusted system

Chris Calabrese — Tue, 03 Jul 2001 14:01:11 GMT

Also, you should make sure that /etc/nsswitch.conf does not use NIS (as opposed to NIS+).

Re: Trusted system

Shahul — Wed, 04 Jul 2001 06:09:21 GMT

Hi

I checked /etc/passwd and /etc/group by using

#pwck /etc/passwd
#grpck /etc/group

And I corrected the errors, But still the same error is coming.

I do not have file called nsswitch.conf in /etc.

Can anyone help me out.

Shahul

Re: Trusted system

Wodisch — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 20:56:48 GMT

Hello Shahul,

you do NOT have to use SAM for this - just call
/usr/lbin/tsconvert
from the command-line, and to revert from it, call
/usr/lbin/tsconvert -r

Both should only need a couple of seconds!

HTH,
Wodisch