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FASTCopy security files protection
Question:
On a UNIX machine, I received the error:
-SEC-E-PROT, illegal protection mode for database file
What does it means?
Answer:
This error means that the protection mode of the files
/etc/softlink.login or /etc/softlink.security is incorrect, either on the local or on the remote machine. The file /etc/softlink.login should be accessible only by the root, and /etc/softlink.login should be modified only by root but readable by everybody. Improper protection of those files compromises the system security.
First, verify that this indeed the problem.
Issue (as root) on both machines the following command:
ls -l /etc/softlink.login /etc/softlink.security
You should see something like:
-rw------- 1 root system 678 Jan 26 2003 softlink.login
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1265 Jan 10 22:43 softlink.security
Note that the protection masks (-rw------- and -rw-r--r--) must be exactly like the ones above.
If this is not the case, please restore the protection by issuing (as root) the following commands:
chmod 0600 /etc/softlink.login
chmod 0644 /etc/softlink.security
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