topic Re: Hi all in Operating System - HP-UX

Hi all

Neelmani Pandey — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:28:16 GMT

Iam not able to login from root in Hp-ux 11.23,As at the same time i can login through
user account n can get it root level priveldge......using su ,Same happen at console too.....

ThanksAll.....

Re: Hi all

Mustafa Gulercan — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:05:25 GMT

hi;
- root account is disabled if you are running in trusted mode.

To enable root login use:

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

- check /etc/securetty file.

regards;

Re: Hi all

Neelmani Pandey — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:52:04 GMT

My system is not trusted, and i still have the same problem..
and i checked /etc/securetty file too..

Re: Hi all

Fabian Briseño — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:02:41 GMT

hello neelmani.

Does it display some kind of error message when you try to log on ?.

Re: Hi all

Peter Godron — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:46:19 GMT

Hi,
and welcome to the forums !

Depending on what error message you get, I suspect somebody has disabled direct root access by modifying /etc/profile.
So when you login with root the login is rejected (even from console), but /etc/profile would not be used for su access, so it would work.

You need to amend /etc/profile to have:
if [ $LOGNAME = root ]
then
if [ `tty` != "/dev/console" ]
then
echo "Error: root logins are only allowed on the console."
exit 1
fi
fi

Re: Hi all

Kapil Jha — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:58:44 GMT

Hello Neel
If your screen just disapper after you log in to root , then chances are that somebody has put exit in .profile file so before coming to prompt you are thwown out of system.
You can check from console and see if some error is coming.
Hope this help !!!!
BR,
Kapil

Re: Hi all

Neelmani Pandey — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:24:53 GMT

thanks Kapil u r genius...........

I was expecting this king of answer form u ..

Thansk a lot..