Account disabled

[csreenivas]

When i tried to connect our server remotely it is showing the below message.
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login: root
Password:
Account is disabled - see Account Administrator

Wait for login exit: ..
Connection closed by foreign host.
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Can anyone of you help me in enabling the account. I am able to login with rootb and other userids.

[Oviwan]

Hey

Login into the console with root then he should be enabled.

Regards

[csreenivas]

My server is at remote location and I dont have the access to console.I have rootb account which has root privileges.

[Oviwan]

search in this forum you will find a lot of threads...

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

OK. So user rootb to reactivate the root account.

# /usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

[Court Campbell]

see if you have an mp/gsp connection, use it to logon as root. Also if you have sudo installed and configured you could try:

# sudo /usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

[csreenivas]

Thank You. enabled my account with the given command.