Fitzgerald & Long Sentry, User Manual

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SENTRY User’s Guide Section 1 - 7
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1.3 VALIDATE THE USER PROFILE DATABASE
This program is used to check the consistency of the users, groups and permissions which have been loaded
into the SENTRY database via the first two programs described in this section. user IDs, groups, and their
usage in the file system are analyzed and inconsistencies are reported. For example, the validation report
might point out a file whose owner is not registered or a home pathname which does not exist on the
system.
VALIDATION SENTRY Database Validation 08/16/00
Enter "OK" to start the validation or "<ESC>" to exit : OK
Do you want to print missing password messages? (Y/N) or <ESC> to exit: N
Validating user profiles
Validating groups
Validating file owners & groups
Validating COMMANDs
*** Problems found during validation ***
See Validation Report for Details
------------------------------ Database Invalid ------------------------------
Press <RETURN> to continue :
Figure 9 - This is an example of the messages displayed to the user during the execution of the validation
program.
Validating the data you have loaded from your passwd and group files and from the file system is the third
step which should be performed when you are first building the SENTRY database. Using this program
you will be able to locate and correct any inconsistencies in your user profiles and groups. Use this
program any time you wish to test for consistency of usage of user IDs, groups and file system protection.
We encourage you to use it EVERY TIME you upload data from the passwd and group files and when you
rebuild the B-tree files (which should be done on a regular basis).