[rescue] SunOS 5.5.1 inaccessible

[Colin Prince]

Right, sounds a bit ominous. If I were able to verify that /bin/login had 
been screwed with, then I guess the only recourse would be to start from 
scratch. Anyone know if I'm able to get this OS without the original 
installation media? Or a subsequent one?

Colin.


At 04:05 PM 2/11/2003 -0500, David Holland wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> >
> > 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
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