Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:07:04 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RALUS for Linux - authentication failing Message-ID: <200707261707.04189.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200707261218.52377.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <200707261218.52377.lists@jnielsen.net>
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On Thursday 26 July 2007 12:18:52 pm John Nielsen wrote: > I'm trying to get the latest Linux remote agent for Backup Exec to run on a > FreeBSD-amd64 machine. The exact version is RALUS-11d.7170.2, although I > suspect any 10.0 - 11d version would be the same. > > After trying a few things (including installing on a real Linux host) I was > able to identify and extract the files containing the two rpm's that are > actually installed. I ran those through rpm2cpio and got a simple directory > layout. I duplicated the directory structure and config file from the Linux > host and ran the main executable. (The init script tries (and fails, even > after I fixed all the hardcoded paths) to do some housekeeping, but none of > it is necessary for the thing to actually run.) > > The executable seems to run okay and the host even shows up as a Unix > target on the (Windows) Backup Exec server, but I'm unable to authenticate, > preventing me from doing any backups. I've used the agent on other Linux > and Solaris hosts successfully, and it generally just takes the OS root (or > other user in the beoper group) password, without a need to set any > ralus-specific passwords anywhere. > > Has anyone else gotten this to work on FreeBSD? If not, can anyone tell me > (or speculate) what method the agent uses / might use to authenticate > users? > > I was able to enable logging, so I know it sees the login attempt but it > can't verify the password: > > 18006 Thu Jul 26 11:51:16 2007 : LogonUser failed for user: root because > LogonUser: The input password does not match the OS password I ended up going with the "legacy" agent for Linux for now. The install script actually ran okay except for installing the startup script (which I had to edit anyway), and the agent seems to be running fine. It uses its own password and authentication so I didn't have the problem I did with the modern RALUS. I'm still open to any input but I probably won't be spending more time on getting the modern agent working if I don't have any new ideas. Thanks, JN
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