Hi,
you can disable GSS authentication... 

you need only to change auth methods from "0.0.0.0/0,nsrauth/oldauth" to 
"0.0.0.0/0,oldauth"

nsradmin -p nsrexec
NetWorker administration program.
Use the "help" command for help, "visual" for full-screen mode.
nsradmin> print type:NSRLA
                        type: NSRLA;
                        name: satellite.site;
 NW instance info operations: ;
       NW instance info file: ;
          installed products: NetWorker 7.6.Build.142;
                     version: EMC NetWorker 7.6.Build.142 11/07/09;
                     servers: localhost, satellite;
                auth methods: "0.0.0.0/0,oldauth";
               administrator: "isroot,host=localhost",
                              "isroot,host=satellite", root,
                              "user=root,host=localhost",
                              "user=root,host=satellite.site";
                 kernel arch: x86_64;
                    CPU type: x86_64;
                machine type: desktop;
                          OS: Linux 2.6.31.12-0.2-default;
           NetWorker version: 7.6.Build.142;
              client OS type: Linux;
                        CPUs: 2;
                     MB used: 172450;
                  IP address: 127.0.0.2, 192.168.1.101,
                              "fe80::216:eaff:fee6:fc0e%wlan0";
nsradmin> update auth methods:"0.0.0.0/0,oldauth"
                auth methods: "0.0.0.0/0,oldauth";
Update? y
updated resource id 3.0.137.10.0.0.0.0.232.182.60.75.0.0.0.0.254.128(113)
nsradmin>



On Tuesday 20 April 2010 17:01:19 George Sinclair wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're seeing the following messages in the NetWorker log file
> (daemon.raw) on the backup server every time one of the save sets runs
> for the Oracle backups:
> 
> 6631 04/20/10 09:29:16  0 primary_server nsrexecd Failed to authenticate
> user with GSS Legato authentication. User: oracle, Domain: (none),
> NetWorker Instance Name: oracle_server
> 
> These messages repeat a number of times for each save set, but the
> backups still run and complete OK.
> 
> We're running NMO 5.0 with NW 7.5.1 client on Oracle 10g, running on
> Linux RH. Primary backup server is running NW 7.5.1, Linux RH. Our
> backups are divided into three groups:
> 
> database_group
> catalog_group
> archive_redo_logs
> 
> Groups 1-2 use a modified versions of the /usr/sbin/nsrnmo script as the
> 'Backup command' and an RMAN script (pathname to RMAN '.rcv' script) as
> the single save set. The difference between our modified version and the
> original (vanilla version) is:
> 
> ORACLE_HOME path is defined
> PATH is defined
> ORACLE_SID is defined
> 
> Note: ORACLE_USER is not defined. We were unclear on what to set that
> to, but the file does mention: "Description: Specifies the user name of
> the Oracle database being backed up. It is required for OS verification
> during backups."
> 
> Backup group 3 is a flat file backup, and we see no such messages for
> that group, my guess being that that's not running as the Oracle user?
> 
> 
> I searched the EMC news listing, and found a few non-Oracle related
> posts where people were receiving errors or time outs due to newer
> versus older authentication. We're not seeing any errors. I ran:
> 
> 'nsradmin -p nsrexec'
> 
> on both the primary backup server and the Oracle client, and both show
> the following for NSRLA: auth methods: "0.0.0.0/0,nsrauth/oldauth";
> 
> What can we do to remove these messages, and should we be concerned
> about them?
> 
> George

-- 
Tomas

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