NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/sys/apollo/4321

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!lampi
From: [e-mail] (Michael Lampi)
Subject: Re: Logging in after install
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail] (System Security Officer)
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. [phone]
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:13:23 GMT
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[e-mail] (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:

>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>>How can I login as root or privileged user at this point? user -apollo- does
>>not give me su access.
[...stuff deleted...]
> One thing I do is force the local registry on each system
>to be updated every night so you can always login to a node whose
>network adaptor has failed - the local registry times out the accounts
>after 21 (?) days, so if you haven't logged in for a while, you won't be
>able to do so when you really need to (I do a '/etc/edrgy -synch',
>after expanding the local registry to hold enough accounts). This won't
>help when you invol, but it also gives you a complete copy of the real
>registry in the local registry.

Is that what you do? Gee, I had a similar problem, except I set the
calendar back to 1985, logged in as root, tried to set up a good &
proper registry, and found that I couldn't. (Also found that invol under
10.4 won't work with the calendar set to 1985, either :-) Anyway,
I finally edited the local registry file using the db debugger, changing
the expiration date of the accounts I wanted to 'never'. This works
quite well even if I don't have a master registry.

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