[Info-vax] Removing /identifier from rights list

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Nope, not a structural error in the rightslist.dat file itself.

v8.4 with all ECO's up to date.

No third-party product installed which could conceivably write anything to the rightlist.

Backups are available via Networker so I guess I could do a restore but I'd love to a: know what caused this and b: would really like to fix it!!!!

Storage is an EMC SAN array, not sure of the model as I don't manage the SAN.

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:21:10 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2014-09-24 15:08:12 +0000, RGB said:
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> > Oddly, an analy/rms/check returned no errors with my rightslist.dat file.
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> So it's not a structural error.
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> > (Which is indeed shared between the 2 nodes of an itanium cluster running v8.4)
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> Early V8.4 had various "issues", in my experience.  Including file 
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> corruptions.   Are you on current on your UPDATEs?
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> > Yet, with this in mind, I see a bunch of gobbeldy-gook when looking at 
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> > several user account rights id's as I listed above.  (No, they aren't 
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> > normal Steve.  The value of the identifier is okay i.e, %X8... but the 
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> > name which should be associated with the value is all screwed up in 
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> > ........>....................... %X8001013C
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> > This is a direct copy and past from a specific user account.  The 
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> > ".....>...." is not normal and should be an id name, no?
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> So that's what you're seeing at a UAF> SHOW {some_user} command, and 
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> not the output from some file dump somewhere?
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> Again posting details -- background, commands, symptoms -- helps with 
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> these questions.  (If I can't tell what I'm looking at...)
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> There can be all sorts of interesting stuff going on in SYSUAF and 
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> inside RIGHTSLIST; there aren't names with various records there.
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> (VMS has some record formats that it uses, and I worked on a security 
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> product that stored some of its own data in RIGHTSLIST, and there are 
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> I'm guessing no backups prior to the corruption?
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