OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Chapter 40. Troubleshooting Procedures
This chapter contains procedures for troubleshooting the security servers. Use these
procedures only when network or hardware failures disrupt operation of the registry, or
when you encounter problems that can be remedied in no other way. These procedures
tell you how to
• Restart a security server
• Restart a security server in locksmith mode
• Restore replicas from a backup
• Forcibly delete a slave replica
• Adopt a registry object that was orphaned because its owner was deleted
Before you run the procedures, ensure that you are logged in via an administrative
account.
40.1 Restarting Security Servers
To restart a security server (master or slave), enter the following command:
dcelocal/bin/secd &
For convenience, set up the server to start automatically whenever the machine reboots.
40.2 Restarting the Master Server in Locksmith Mode
The secd -locksmith option starts secd in locksmith mode. This option can be used only
on the master replica. In locksmith mode, the principal name that you specify to secd
becomes the locksmith principal. As the locksmith principal, you can repair malicious or
accidental changes that prevent you from logging in with full registry access privileges.
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