Openldap update problem

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote:

> This morning, I came in to work and was told no one could log on to any
> of the linux machines.  After some digging, I checked the LDAP directory
> and found out it was totally empty -- it was overwritten.
> 
> I was able to recreate it based on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but then
> proceeded to find out why.  I found out that last night, new ldap rpms
> were installed by up2date:
> 
<snip>
> 
> I've now marked ldap to be skipped in updates, but am curious if this is
> normal behaviour. 
> 
> Thank god I keep everything in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow just in case.

Don't you keep backups?  It would probably have been easier to just 
restore the file that got over-written, wouldn't it?

Ben