SUMMARY: check_access: access denied AND admhostmod

vladimir@math.uic.edu
Thu, 25 Dec 1997 00:03:14 +0000

Dear Managers,

unfortunately I didn't receive any replies to the question (original
message is below), so the summary is empty. The problem is still
unsolved. I would like to thank everybody who read and thought about
it.

Vladimir

Original message follows:
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>From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Sat Nov 29 22:35:37 1997
Delivered-To: vladimir-sun-managers@math.uic.edu
To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov
Subject: check_access: access denied AND admhostmod
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Dear Sun Managers,

I was trying to convert a SPARC Solaris 2.6 machine (hostname todd) to
become an OS server. I used the command:

./admhostmod -x type=OS_SERVER todd

and also tried using the hostmanager.

Unfortunately both hostmgr and admhostmod failed with the same error:

Error: check_access: access denied to the host table.

I keep getting the same error even after I allowed r-m-c-d permission
on the host table to everyone:

todd$ niscat -o hosts.org_dir
Object Name : hosts
Directory : org_dir.queens.science.
Owner : betti.queens.science.
Group : admin.queens.science.
Access Rights : rmcdrmcdrmcdrmcd
Time to Live : 12:0:0
Creation Time : Tue May 13 16:24:44 1997
Mod. Time : Sat Nov 29 14:19:56 1997
Object Type : TABLE
Table Type : hosts_tbl
Number of Columns : 4
Character Separator :
Search Path :
Columns :
[0] Name : cname
Attributes : (SEARCHABLE, TEXTUAL DATA, CASE INSENSITIVE)
Access Rights : rmcdrmcdrmcdrmcd
[1] Name : name
Attributes : (SEARCHABLE, TEXTUAL DATA, CASE INSENSITIVE)
Access Rights : rmcdrmcdrmcdrmcd
[2] Name : addr
Attributes : (SEARCHABLE, TEXTUAL DATA, CASE INSENSITIVE)
Access Rights : rmcdrmcdrmcdrmcd
[3] Name : comment
Attributes : (TEXTUAL DATA)
Access Rights : rmcdrmcdrmcdrmcd

The user executing this command (username jvm) is the member of group 14
(sysadmin) and is the member of the nis+ admin group:

todd$ nisgrpadm -l admin
Group entry for "admin.queens.science." group:
Explicit members:
betti.queens.science.
jvm.queens.science.
newton.queens.science.
todd.queens.science.
No implicit members
No recursive members
No explicit nonmembers
No implicit nonmembers
No recursive nonmembers

At this point I have no bright ideas and would really appreciate somebody's
opinion or help.

Please kindly send replies to vladimir@math.uic.edu; I will post
a summary. Thank you.

Vladimir Egorin
System Admin
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Illinois
vladimir@math.uic.edu