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

root account lockout

Ronald W. Widlewski — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:20:30 GMT

The root account is locked.

What are the typical methods to
recover/restore the root account
or re-gain access to root login ?

As a followup, can SAM configured to
allow the use by a non-root user ?

Re: root account lockout

Alex Lavrov. — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:23:17 GMT

What do you mean by locked? Forgot the password?

If so, you must boot in single user mode and then change the root password.

Alex.

Re: root account lockout

Geoff Wild — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:23:28 GMT

Usually - boot into single user mode to re-enable root (hpux -is from ISL prompt)

Yes - SAM can be configured for non-root - use sam -r

for more info,
man sam

Rgds...Geoff

Re: root account lockout

Ronald W. Widlewski — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:33:43 GMT

note thr following:

su -
Password:
Account is disabled - see Account Administrator
su: Sorry

Re: root account lockout

DCE — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:35:32 GMT

If you have sudo installed on the system, you can issue the command

sudo su - (even though it is locked) and run

modprpw -k root

to unlock the root account.

If you do not have sudo (or another root level account), you will have to boot into single user mode to reactivate the root account.

Re: root account lockout

Rick Garland — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:36:54 GMT

You have trusted systems?

This usually means that there were 3 unsuccessful login attempts.

login as root on the console and account will be unlocked.

Re: root account lockout

Pat Lieberg — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:37:19 GMT

The root account can be disabled if your system is in trusted mode. However, you can always login as root at the system console.

You can configure SAM to be accessible by other users. Run sam -r.

Re: root account lockout

Ronald W. Widlewski — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:57:41 GMT

Thank you ... all

Re: root account lockout

Ronald W. Widlewski — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:58:49 GMT

solutions confirmed