On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote: > This morning, I came in to work and was told no one could log on to any > of the linux machines. After some digging, I checked the LDAP directory > and found out it was totally empty -- it was overwritten. > > I was able to recreate it based on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but then > proceeded to find out why. I found out that last night, new ldap rpms > were installed by up2date: > <snip> > > I've now marked ldap to be skipped in updates, but am curious if this is > normal behaviour. > > Thank god I keep everything in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow just in case. Don't you keep backups? It would probably have been easier to just restore the file that got over-written, wouldn't it? Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
