topic Re: Trusted System on 11.00 S800 in Operating System - HP-UX

Trusted System on 11.00 S800

Russell Davy — Wed, 30 Aug 2000 20:31:17 GMT

I am trying to convert my system to a trusted system on a L2000 and a L1000.
The L2000 doesn't even pass the tsconvert stage?
The L1000 passes tsconvert, sets up /tcb and /.secure but then nobody, even root can login and modprpw fails and says the passwd was not found in the secure database?
/tcb is there and the user file exists and it has the passwd entry.

I have installed the June 2000 patches, running 11.00 with VxFS.

I am stumped

Re: Trusted System on 11.00 S800

Russell Davy — Wed, 30 Aug 2000 20:44:12 GMT

SUCCESS!
My problem was an incorrectly setup /etc/nsswitch.conf file that pointed to NIS when NIS is not running.

Modified that and it works great

Re: Trusted System on 11.00 S800

Steve Post — Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:43:52 GMT

fyi. This problem/solution applies to other computers like HP9000's. I had the same problem. After switching to the Trusted System, I could not log in, or change root's password. Cause? The nsswitch.conf said to use "passwd: compat". I changed that to "passwd: files" That allowed me to login as root. Here's a bit of advice though, login 5 times as root before you switch to the Trusted System, and immediately try to change root's password. This way you know immediately if you have a problem.

I think that "passwd: compat" meant to use NIS instead of the password file. But I have NIS turned off.
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