topic Re: getprpw lockout in Operating System - HP-UX

getprpw lockout

j773303 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:12:52 GMT

0001000 4 exceeded unsuccessful login attemtps
0000010 6 admin lock
0000001 7 password is a *

For the above meaning of the lockout-value, does anyone knows the difference of "disable" and "lock"? If user1 disable or lock, how about the user1 cron job is still workable?

Thanks,

Re: getprpw lockout

Jaime Bolanos Rojas. — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:27:31 GMT

j773303,

Disable is when the sys admin on purpose or a script will lock an account, and a lock account is when somebody by mistake type the password wrong several times, then the account got locked.

If a user is disable or lockout he should not be able to run the cron jobs, when you trust the system and you take a look at the logs, you will see that a trusted system is actually aware of what user run what cron job.

Regards,

Jaime.

Re: getprpw lockout

j773303 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:47:42 GMT

In trusted system,
I've try to login user1 with unsuccessfully login 3 times and lock account. But user1 cron job still running after account disabled. Does anyone has the ideas what's the definition of account disable/lock ? Is it just means user1 can't ftp/login/telnet?

Thanks in advanced.

Re: getprpw lockout

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:34:14 GMT

Correct. Even if the account is disabled or locked, cron jobs will STILL run. Cron does NOT actually log in, so the account status is irrelevent.