[rescue] SunOS 5.5.1 inaccessible

[David Holland]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:54, Colin Prince wrote:
> Hi all,
> 

> 
> UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0 ([hostname])
> ld.so.1: /bin/login: fatal: libpam.so.1: can't open file: errno=2

libpam.so.1 does not (and is not supposed to) exist on a 2.5.1 box. 

> 
> So, now I cannot access this box remotely. There is a console which is 
> still working okay, though I'm now afraid to log out.

Wouldn't recommend logging out.  You probably won't get back in, at
least not with out dropping to single user.

> 
> Checking in the file system, I find that there is no file 
> "/usr/lib/libpam.so.1" (I'm assuming from the man page that this is the 
> right path). It would seem odd that this file would exist before and then 
> disappear so there may be a question of somebody deleting this file, who 
> exactly, I don't know.

It sounds more like someone replaced /bin/login with something from a 
later version of Solaris. 

The quick/cheap way to get a replacement binary is to grab the
/usr/bin/login patch for 2.5.1  (106160-02) from sunsolve.sun.com, and
extract the binary out. (Be certain to check the other pre-requisite
patches) 

My gut feeling however, someone may of fub'd your box in a serious way,
and this will be the first of many problems. 

David