topic Re: Root password in Operating System - HP-UX

Root password

bhupals — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:00:08 GMT

Hi,
I have two hp box installed HP-UX 11.11 we use the ssh for login, suddenly the root passwd of both Server has locked then I login by sudo and tried for change the root password but I am getting error as below.

Please Help...........................

Regds

Bhupal

$ sudo su
Password:
# su -
You have mail.

Value of TERM has been set to "xterm".
WARNING: YOU ARE SUPERUSER !!

root@hp124::/->passwd root
Changing password for root
Old password:
Last successful password change for root: Thu Sep 29 14:40:54 2005
Last unsuccessful password change for root: Fri Mar 31 11:44:22 2006

Password cannot be changed. Reason: password lifetime has passed.
root@hp124::/->

Re: Root password

Rick Garland — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:06:17 GMT

Is this trusted systems?

If so, look into the /usr/lbin/modprpw command.

There are options to unlock, reactivate, refresh, etc

man modprpw

Re: Root password

DCE — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:07:53 GMT

If the system is trusted, you use the following command to reset the counters.

/usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

Re: Root password

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:09:01 GMT

From output you are showing I think you dont have trusted system but still seems you have password aging is there..

do

usermod -f 0 - to reinvoke the user

and then change the password

to remove password aging

passwd -x -1

/usr/lbin/modprpw -l -k
/usr/lbin/modprpw -l -v -- for trusted system...

Hope it helps
Prashant

Re: Root password

bhupals — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:23:29 GMT

Thank you very much, passwd has been changed in both server.
thanks ones more.