Account Disabled

[q tang]

Hi all,Pls. help me!!
I have donw some operation with sam then the "root" user be disabled! When I want to login as "root" user,system info me:"Account is disabled -- see Account Administrator"!
Pls. tell me what kind operation will cause this phenomanon and how can I enable the "root" account now!!

Thanks!!

[Sean OB_1]

You will have to boot into single user mode and log in as root.

[Steven E. Protter]

Two possible aveneues.

Just so happens, I accidently expired root account on a test box today.

It let me logon as root on the console and correct the problem which was with password aging.

If that won't work, restart the box, interupt the boot when the message gives you 10 seconds to do so.

bo

Hit enter

Interact with the ISL

type hpux -is

Unless you have security really tight you can log on as root and use the passwd command to reset the root password to your liking.

Steve

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

I believe your root account has been locked out. As suggested by Steven, you can login from the console. Hook up a console to your server and login as root. But this will not unlock the account. Once you are in, use the command

#/usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

Then try to login remotely.

If you lost the root password, you have to get it into single user mode provided you have not enabled the "password required on single user mode" feature.

-Sri

[Ian Kidd_1]

as far as I know, the only way to re-enable the root account without bringing the server down to single-user mode is if you have an account that can issue commands with root priviledges. so IF you have something like sudo or a back-door root account, you should be able to use:

/usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

if you don't, then you'll need to go to single-user mode to fix this.

As to what you did in sam, you might have enabled the Trusted sytem capabilities. look at /etc/passwd and see if the encrypted passwords have been replaced with *. If so, you can unconvert in sam ... once root is enabled.

[Rajeev Shukla]

Here you have these solutions.
If you have disabled and you still have a root window open (root session)then you can just type
/usr/lbin/modprpw -r root
this will enable the root account.
Or else go to console of this machine or connect webconsole and login as root, it should alow you to login. And then you can run /usr/lbin/modprpw -k root to enable the root account.

If all this doesn't work then only possibility is to reboot the machine in single user mode and enable there

Rajeev

[q tang]

Thank U all!

[Fred.Wu]

You can get into single user mode and use:
"/etc/tsconvert -r"
to solve this problem.