topic Re: user login problem in Operating System - HP-UX

user login problem

Dan Matlock_1 — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:14:52 GMT

strange problem on trusted system. user can't seem to login through telnet, but can login with diff. user and then 'su -' to himself. Must not be a home dir. issue, but what else should I check?

Re: user login problem

Dan Matlock_1 — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:53:40 GMT

strange results: I reset the passwd and it works. User had '#' in the passwd on this trusted 11.00 system!? When taken out, then can login, but in they can't...... On a 11.11 trusted system it works. Maybe other variables envolved causing this, but seems strange to me!

Re: user login problem

Muthukumar_5 — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:30:52 GMT

I hope # character can not be used in passwd on trusted systems. I think the problem is still existing. Can you try as, \# ? Just a try. I hope several threads started for this # character problem.

hth.

Re: user login problem

Pete Randall — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:37:58 GMT

From the "Warnings" section of "man passwd":

Avoid password characters which have special meaning to the tty driver, such as # (erase) and @ (kill). You may not be able to login with these characters.

Pete

Re: user login problem

Dan Matlock_1 — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:29:39 GMT

thanx