environment setting

[Teck Sim]

Before a cold-install from HP-UX 10.20 to HP-UX 11 32-bit, when I logon to server A:

HP-UX aquila B.10.20 U 9000/869 (ttyp1)

login: tsim
password:xxxx

[SMD1:/home/tsim]>

After the cold-install to HP-UX 11, when I log on to the system, I was only allow to login as root, but not tsim. When I login as tsim,

login: tsim
Password: xxxx
Login incorrect
login:

Is there any scripts at all or something I can use to recreate the old environment setting, such as login as tsim, do a su - oracle and do a cd $ORACLE_HOME, svrmgrl, etc.?

Where can I find "those" files in another similar server B and do a rcp to this server A?

Please help. Thanks.

[Mark Greene_1 · Accepted solution]

from you last backup of the server under 10.20, restore the file /home/tsim/.profile. You may also need to restore /etc/profile, but I'd restore that to a new file name and then merge any differences into the existing 11.0 /etc/profile.

HTH
mark

[Pete Randall]

Sounds like you need to restore your /etc/passwd file.

Pete

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi Teck

Do you have a backup on tape of your old environment settings for your user? You could recreate the user then restore all his settings in his /home/tsim/.profile

HTH

Steve

[Sandip Ghosh]

You need to copy the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file to login to the server. Then you need the individual .profile files for each users, may be you need to copy the home directories of the users also.

Sandip

[Rodney Hills]

Before a cold install you should have done a backup of /home as well as some other key directories. Building a hpux system is easy- Carrying over those things that were on a previous system takes planning.

If you have a backup of /home, then you can restore /home/tsim.

You will then need to create an entry in /etc/passwd for tsim.



-- Rod Hills

[V. V. Ravi Kumar_1]

hi,

restore /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/profile from the old backup.

regds

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Teck

Genrally the env is set by the .profile file which is excuted in the home directory of the user , ie su - tsim will take you to the home directory of the user , than you can ftp or copy .rpofle from there to the user.


Manoj Srivastava

[Teck Sim]

I have restored /home/tsim/..., /home/oracle/..., and all work well. I could do a cd $ORACLE_HOME, su - oracle....., but I was unable to ping localhost or loopback. But I could ping from other servers to this server. So I made changes to /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs:
from NIS_CLIENT="1" to NIS_CLIENT="0". Now I am able to ping localhost, and loopback, but I cannot login as tsim anymore, except as root.
What's going on here?