Dear managers,
Thanks to
Casper Dik
Sean Quaint
Marina Daniels
The problem was what i was suspecting but hoping had not happened:
somebody had hacked in and replaced the login binary file and other
binaries as well. I was able to login and once the correct login binary
was restored from the CDROM. Cleaning up the system is goig to be a long
and ardous task though.
The original question:
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Dear managers,
i am unable to get the "passwd" prompt at the console for any user as well
as the root. if i try a remote login, the connection is being refused by
the m/c. the m/c is sparc/sol2.5.1. at the same time i am able to ftp into
the m/c as an ordinary user.
i have not changed/added anything recently. On checking in the maintenance
mode, the file permission for "/" seems to be ok. The inetd.conf file and
/etc/services file seem to be proper. The only unusual message the
"/var/adm/message" seems to have is
"inetd[104] config: 100068/rpc/udp still active and was not reconfigures"
"inetd[104] config: 100083/rpc/tcp still active and was not reconfigured"
i am not sure if this pertinent at all. also the /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow files seem ok.
i would appreciate any pointers,
TIA,
sandeep.
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