permission of /etc/protocols

[Ronny_7]

Hi,

My customer's system was recently upgraded from Tru64 Unix V4.0D to V5.1B.

After upgrade, all users could not telnet or ftp out to other systems. Root account works fine.

After some checking found that the permission of /etc/protocols is set to 600.
We change this to 755 and all users to telnet and ftp out.

Any one can advise what could have cause this change in permission.

Thanks and Regards,
Ronny

[Ralf Puchner]

the update, it is a well known issue during upgrade and it is well known documented here in the forum (if using the search function).

A simple fverify should fix the problem...

[Ravi_8]

Hi Ronny

we had done many upgrades but haven't faced any problem. But we did in phased manner 4.0D->5.0->5.1A->5.1B.
since you upgraded directly from 4D to 5.1B, this might have caused this problem

[Ronny_7]

Hi Ravi,

Sorry for the confusion.
The upgrade was done in phased manner as well, not direct from V4.0D to 5.1B.

Hi Ralf,

Since this common issue, can I know if this is documented somewhere which can be shown to customer?

Thanks and Regards,
Ronny

[Ralf Puchner · Accepted solution]

Ronny,

as I remember there is a fix within a patchkit. I've seen the problem on machines updating from older version in several steps to a new system (e.g. 5.1->5.1a->5.1b).

But it is well known within HP.

[Ronny_7]

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