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From: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: re: registry problem
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Date: 19 Feb 91 23:33:54 GMT
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> ...while someone was editing the master ( only ) registry, another person
> EX'd the node on which the registry resides. Now rgyd will not start on
> the node ....  The question is, how do we get the registry back.
You might want to try '/etc/rgyd -restore_master'.  In the help file, this
is listed for use when something catastrophic has happened....  It may be that
it expects a back-up to have been placed there, but it can't hurt.

> If I do need to re-create the registry, is there a way to set the uid's back 
> to what they were. ( We only have 3 user accounts + the default ones ). 
Well, with only 3 non-default accounts, it might be easiest to run rgy_create
and add 3 accounts.  
> If I could find out the existing uid's could I use adopt in edrgy to do this?
You should be able to, for the person, group, and org parts.  The accounts don't
have this, however (being built up of a p,g,o triplet).  You might be able to
find the UIDs by using edrgy on a/the local registry (/etc/edrgy -l).  Then, a
'view -f' should give you lots of info.  On my node, part of it reads
        thompson[.sys_admin.sys_org]:Not-My-Passwd:100:10::/user/thompson:/com/sh:
          created by: root.sys.none  1990/05/10.17:44
          changed by: thompson.sys_admin.sys_org  1991/02/04.08:50
          password is: valid, was last changed: 1991/01/24.13:33
          account expires:  1991/02/25  account is: valid
          logged in from: BC86    
          person:    100   40130AEA.3000BCF0
          group:      10   00800042.00000000
          org:        10   00000582.00000000
The last parts, of course, give you the Unix number and the UID for the adoption.
My registry was up at the time, so it might have gotten some stuff from there, but I
told it to do local-only.

Suggestion to HP/Apollo-types out there.  As long as the local registry is around,
would it be possible to have a utility that did a 'merge' of the local back into
the real registry????   Pretty please?

-- jt --
John Thompson
Honeywell, SSEC
Plymouth, MN  55441
thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com

Me?  Represent Honeywell?  You've GOT to be kidding!!!