topic Re: root account locked in Operating System - HP-UX

root account locked

Abhijit P. — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:34:24 GMT

In one of the forum yesterday I saw a reply saying to do following by aunvijai

#remsh server -n " /usr/lbin/modprpw -k root" or reboot your server in single

Please letme how to do it cause same is the case with me how can I login to the server using remsh it is enabled on my server

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Abhijit

Re: root account locked

Fabio Ettore — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:10:48 GMT

Hi,

no, it is not possible. I have tried it on a my system just for a test and you always will get that the root account is locked.
remsh works like all r-commands checking /.rhosts on the system where you try the connection.

The only one possibility is

/usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

I hope that helps you.

Best regards,
Fabio

Re: root account locked

Rick Garland — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:53:20 GMT

When the root account is locked, the most popular way to unlockit is login via the console.

There are other tricks, most notably using sudo. But this requires configuration BEFORE the account is locked.

Re: root account locked

Abhijit P. — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:05:08 GMT

Hi thanks all ,

I think I will have to reboot the server I don't have any option to do other than going in a single user mode.Actually Its my production server so I was searching through the options cause I won't get downtime easily.

Anyways thanks a lot for the replies ...

Regards,
Abhijit Panse

Re: root account locked

Abhijit P. — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:08:00 GMT

I found the solution ...