topic Re: root user automatically getting disabled. in Operating System - HP-UX

root user automatically getting disabled.

Viswanadhan — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:08:28 GMT

Hi All,

One of my HP UX 11:00 ROOT user automactically getting disabled. How get resovle this ?

Im confident that no one using root user other than my team.

Fortunately we have other user with full permissions.

Regards,
Viswa.

Re: root user automatically getting disabled.

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:29:09 GMT

>>> Fortunately we have other user with full permissions.

This is probably part of your problem. Multiple users with UID 0 is considered to be very poor security policy.

I assume that your system is trusted. Bear in mind that all it would take to disable the root account is for anyone to attempt to login as root unsucessfully typically 3 times. Even with only one UID 0 user root, you should still be able to login on the console.

The very first thing that I would do is execute /usr/lbin/getprpw root and note the value of the lockout field. The position of a '1' in any of the 7 characters in the string indicates a locked account. The position of the '1' indicates the reason.

Re: root user automatically getting disabled.

skt_skt — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:31:34 GMT

i would also to look the output of getprpw and also compare with another server too to check any other possible difference

Re: root user automatically getting disabled.

Viswanadhan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:33:08 GMT

Thanks for info, and help