NIS+

["Elfering, David J (Dave)" <delfering@lucent.com>]

Now that I've taken advantage of everyone's hospitality with regards to my
printing problems, I'd like to ask another question.

We have an NIS+ domain setup long ago by a sysadmin far, far away. Recently
the root user login quit working (Mr Murphy come calling again). The net
effect is that we now have a machine running as the NIS+ master and no
control over that NIS+ domain. We can of course break root locally, but that
doesn't give you control over the domain (as far as I can figure out).

We can of course blow away and recreate the domain, but that entails an
outage on the system that we'd rather not incur if its avoidable. 

Gist of the matter: once root becomes locked out of the domain on the master
controller, are there any options to recover. (reminds me a a looneytoon
cartoon in which a boulder is falling and Wile E. Coyote asks a computer for
his options... )

I recongize that the domain shouldn't have gotten out of hand, but that's
beyond my control.

Thoughts?

Thank you,

Dave Elfering
delfering@lucent.com