Openldap update problem
Benjamin J. Weiss
benjamin at Weiss.name
Thu Sep 2 18:24:05 UTC 2004
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
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