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

root locked out

mvr — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:52:31 GMT

I coverted to the trusted system, but now all of my accounts (including root). How do I handle this (beside rebooting in to single user mode) ?

Re: root locked out

Paul Sperry — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:54:49 GMT

rebooting to single user mode is th only way I know of. Sorry

Re: root locked out

Ian Kidd_1 — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:57:26 GMT

Single-user mode if you don't have a product like sudo or sfu. Otherwise you might be able to issue a sudo modprdw -k root (or launch sam with sudo).

Re: root locked out

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:59:30 GMT

Hi Miro,

Now you see why it's always recommended to have at least 2 root sessions running when converting. One to test & one to resolve if root account gets locked out.

Do you have another server that you can rlogin (w/o PW) from?

If you have another trusted system, you might also try to ftp the /tcb/files/auth/r/root entry from that system to this one - then use that system's root PW.

But I think there's a good likelihood that you'll be having to get to single-user
mode to properly resolve this.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: root locked out

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:24:46 GMT

Do u ahve atleast one session of root still open if so then convert it back and then reactivate. In case no then all you can do is to boot in single user mode.

Manoj Srivastava

Re: root locked out

Ken Hubnik_2 — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:31:09 GMT

If you have a root session open all you have to do is run this command.
/usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

Re: root locked out

Ken Hubnik_2 — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:33:05 GMT

Another way is if you have ITO running you can run sam on that server to reset,

Re: root locked out

mvr — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:58:47 GMT

Thank you all .... I was lucky and I found one session opened on the linux box, as a root.
I got it working with /usr/lbin/modprpw -V

GREAT LESON .....

Thank you again :)

Miro

Re: root locked out

W.C. Epperson — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:37:42 GMT

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