topic Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE in Operating System - HP-UX

USER LOGIN ISSUE

oprakash — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:06:47 GMT

Hi,

I am getting the following error msg, when i used to log with one specific userid.
" TOO MANY LOGIN - CONTACT ADMIN "
I have checked the currently used ID's by #who -q.

Can any one suggest me to resolve this issue.

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

Suraj K Sankari — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:18:30 GMT

Hi,

1st how many user licences you have for this system did you check that "uname -a" will show that.
2nd now how many users are login "who -q" what is the output ?
Is this error came for all user or some specific user ?

Suraj

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

oprakash — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:24:14 GMT

Hi,

Uname -a => unlimited user license

who -q => 50 users are connected.

Getting the error msg only to a particular user (araj).

Note: If i removed .login and .profile from the user home directory. I can get the $ prompt for that user.

I normally used to copy .login and .profile from existing users, its customised thing.

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

johnsonpk — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:29:46 GMT

Hi Oprakash,

It looks like the message is from some script ,not seems to be a system generated one .

Check users's .profile and see any script is incorporated with that check the login sessions

However You can check the /etc/default/security for an entry

NUMBER_OF_LOGINS_ALLOWED

Rgds
Johnson

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

johnsonpk — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:31:44 GMT

Hello ,

please attach the .profile and .login

and cat /etc/passwd |grep

Rgds
Johnson

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

oprakash — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:49:47 GMT

Hi,

Kindly find the attached .login & .profile for your reference.

# pg /etc/security | grep araj
araj:*:268:20:Anthony Raj,FBSC,,:/home/araj:/usr/bin/sh

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

oprakash — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:52:25 GMT

Hi,

Also attached .login for your reference.

I am not able to find

# pg security
MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH=8
PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH=8

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

Anoop P_2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:53:18 GMT

This IS from a script for sure. Look for "TOO MANY" line in .profile of the user and make modifications appropriately.

May be an earlier sysadmin put in this script and you took over recently. A wild guess there.

Look for reasons why he did that before attempting to remove it.

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

Suraj K Sankari — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:27:55 GMT

Hi,
>>Note: If i removed .login and .profile from the user home directory. I can get the $ prompt for that user.

Some time what happned users are forget to logout from the system, in that case some script is running behind if a perticular user is having more then 5 or 8 login into the system then system should not allow for a new login.

do who -u | grep araj
if all "araj" logins are idel, means old logins then kill all of them.

Suraj

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

johnsonpk — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:36:11 GMT

Hi,

The attached .profile seems good...

Are you sure that .profile you atttached is from /home/araj and complete?

#who |grep -i araj
#grep -i "too" /etc/profile

Rgds
Johnson

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

oprakash — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:40:55 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your support, finaaly i got a solution. Its nothing but the .profile contains an another script. I have stopped that script, now user can able to access the server.

Re: USER LOGIN ISSUE

oprakash — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:41:28 GMT

Thanks team.