Re: [PLUG] Disaster Recovery and user accounts

["Jonathan Bringhurst" <fintler@gmail.com>]

This could be caused by many...many things....ranging from permission
problems to the hostname not being consistant. What I would suggest is
to boot into single user, tail the syslog, and switch to a new tty to
attempt to log in and see what kinda of error your syslog prints. If
that doesn't work, try different logs that might be related. Good
luck.

On 7/27/06, Joseph B. Welsh <JWelsh@welshworks.com> wrote:
> Hi PLUG,
>
> I have a Red Hat Enterprise 3 Server that host my company Oracle DB and
> we have started practicing our Disaster Recovery Procedures.  We do a
> complete tape backup with the Oracle Db shutdown (cold backup)
>
> When I restore our backup to our test machine which is identical to the
> production machine I do all the mount points and directories with the
> exception of /dev and /proc.
>
> After the restore and reboot, I go to the console and try to logon as
> root and I get the following message:
>
> FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR root, Authentication service cannot
> retrieve authentication
>
> I made sure  that /etc/users /etc/groups /etc/passwd were all copied
> from the tape.
>
> Anybody know what to make of this error?  Should I not exclude those
> directories.
>
> I tried a single user boot for the server and changed the root password
> but as soon as I log out and try to get back in I get the same errors.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Joe
>
> --
> Joe Welsh
> Jwelsh@WelshWorks.com
>
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