Deleted Supervisor

[Gregory Veal]

In usc.list.novell you write:

>> From: Haran Craig Rashes <HA...@UMICH.EDU>
>> Organization: Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
>> Subject: Deleted Supervisor
>> A user with Supervisor equivalency has accidently deleted the user Supervisor
!
>> This in turn eliminated the Supervisor equivalency of all Supervisor
> equivalent
>> users (I guess if there is no one to be equivalent to...)
>> Does anyone know of any way to recreate the user Supervisor?

>BindFix maybe?

>I didn't think that the server would let you delete supervisor,
>though? Perhaps BindFix is bright enough to put it back. Alternatly,
>you could restore your bindery files from your last good backup
>before this happened. If neither of those will work, a guy in Holland
>sat down and figured out the format of the bindery files; you could
>maybe hand-edit the supervisor back in. Or, you could re-install...

Say, Im interested in contacting this guy in Holland. Do you know his
address. I would be very much appreceated getting the format of BINDERY FILES.
Thanks in advance
Greg VEAL

[Root Account]

Gregory Veal <ve...@SCF.USC.EDU> writes:

> Thanks in advance
> Greg VEAL

I put a small program explaining the format of bindery files on anonymous ftp
dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl /pub/novell (or something like that)

I thought it wasn't possible to delete supervisor,
Can't you just create it again, using that same supervisor equivalent account?
(maybe not, its equivalence is gone)

another way might be: rename SYS: to something else, create a new
SYS: volume -> new bindery files will be created.
with supervisor & guest account without password

may be you can use something like mir122.zip to restore all other user accounts

I think some backup programs have a special option to restore bindery files too.

willem

[Richard Letts]

Root Account wrote....

> I put a small program explaining the format of bindery files on anonymous ftp
> dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl /pub/novell (or something like that)
>
> I thought it wasn't possible to delete supervisor,

You cannot with the normal Novell Tools.

> Can't you just create it again, using that same supervisor equivalent account?
> (maybe not, its equivalence is gone)

Nor using an NLM; Supervisor needs an ObjectId of '1' and there is no way to
recreate this using standard API calls.

> another way might be: rename SYS: to something else, create a new
> SYS: volume -> new bindery files will be created.
> with supervisor & guest account without password

Or use Lasthope.nlm which renames the bindery whislt it is closed; when you
reopen the bindery, and it does not exist NW recreates a minimal one for you.

Richard Letts
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