topic Re: usermod/userdel problem in Operating System - HP-UX

usermod/userdel problem

Sunil Surve — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:51:51 GMT

Hi,

We are facing a peculiar problem on all the machines in our 3 node clsutered setup.
When we try to modify users attribute through usermod/userdel or sam it gives us a error
"Failed to modify user "test"
This user is currently logged in and therefore cannot be modified".
Can anybody help me out in this..

Re: usermod/userdel problem

Mister_Z — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:54:09 GMT

try to perform the changes when the user has logged out.

HTH,

Re: usermod/userdel problem

RAC_1 — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:55:32 GMT

Try after user has logged out.

OR do vipw and modify the user.

Re: usermod/userdel problem

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:02:25 GMT

Hi Sunil,

You have to do the changes once the user has logged out. Youcan manually edit the /etc/passwd file, but the changes would still be effective once the user has logged out and logged in again.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: usermod/userdel problem

Hazem Mahmoud_3 — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:11:43 GMT

To check which users are logged in, do a "who -a".

Re: usermod/userdel problem

Fabio Ettore — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:36:35 GMT

Hi,

of course your user should logout before.

# who -R

will give you username and IP address/hostname about user/systems logged in.

I hope this helps you.

Best regards,
Ettore

Re: usermod/userdel problem

KapilRaj — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:24:01 GMT

As a smart sysadmin i would try this before i do usermod

ps -ef |grep |grep -v grep |awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9

Note : Just kiddin don't try this; it has many loop holes

Better get his IP address and give him a call and ask him to log out

Kaps

Re: usermod/userdel problem

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:26:20 GMT

Hi,

besides finding the "insulting" user ;-), who hindered your administrative work have you tried to use those commands from shell?

greetings,

Michael