Re: Can't log in the system

From: Noel R. Nihill (nnihil01_at_Motorola.BLAH.com)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:20:39 -0000

"Alex Li" <alexli@icil.net> wrote in message
news:bo9kpn$h5m$1@news.yaako.com...
>
> Yesterday after I had ldap enabled in my system,while today right after i
> reboot the system,I tried any account I have in the system but failed,root
> included.Could any1 be kind to tell me how to once again log in the
system.

Is it possible that you have 'ldapped' the system in such
a way that /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow are now unreadable
by /bin/login? Tell us what message you are getting when
your login is refused.

If you can boot from Solaris CD 1 of 2, you can boot cdrom -s
and check permissions. You could also temporarily move /bin/login
to /bin/original_login and replace it with a script like:

#!/bin/ksh
truss -o /var/login.trc -leaf /bin/original_login
exit 0

...and attempt to boot from disk and login to the system.
On failure, reboot from CD to regain control and look
at /var/login.trc for any nasties.

Word to the wise: 'man login' is chock-full of titbits on
the login process. 

--
Noel R. Nihill
UNIX® platform development
Motorola NSS
I *could* be arguing in my spare time.

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