Xref: utzoo comp.unix.internals:1197 comp.unix.xenix.sco:939 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:13965 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!pemstgt!ralfi From: ralfi@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de (Ralf Holighaus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: need URGENT help with SCO UNIX TCP/IP - please Keywords: SCO UNIX TCP/IP Message-ID: <1990Dec02.124510.16227@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de> Date: 2 Dec 90 12:45:10 GMT References: <257@eliza.edvvie.at> Organization: PEM Tillmann Basien, Stuttgart, Germany Lines: 30 schweigl@edvvie.at (Johnny Schweigl) writes: >Error: > After entering userid and passwd (telnet session is ok) SCO UNIX > responds with "Cannot obtain database information on this terminal". > when logging on as root on /dev/console, the system tells me that > "The security databases are corrupt". No new logins are allowed after > this error had occured. > The error seems to have no systematic behaviour. It appears at random > points in time, with 3 telnet sessions or 20, or something like that. >Possible sources of error: > Someone modified /etc/passwd manually. System will be reinstalled > completely this weekend. If this was the only problem, shouldn't the > error occur permanently? Quite contrary, it is not reproducible. Do you have any software installed on your system which maybe changes either /etc/passwd or /etc/group directly? We had a problem with some database software which behaved like that and therefore had to reinstall the entire system! Rgds Ralf -- Programmentwicklung fuer Microcomputer | Ralf U. Holighaus PO-Box 810165 Vaihinger Strasse 49 | >> PEM Support << D-7000 Stuttgart 80 West Germany | holighaus@pemstgt.PEM-Stuttgart.de VOICE: x49-711-713045 FAX: x49-721-713047 | ..!unido!pemstgt!ralfi Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com