Activating users accounts from the command prompt

[Ayanda]

Can anyone help me , How do I activate/enable a user's account on the trusted system from the command prompt without using SAM

[Mark Greene_1]

see the man page for useradd

HTH
mark

[Pete Randall]

Or search the forum on "useradd".

Pete

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Ayanda,

To enable/unlock an existing account use
#modprpw -k username

To create a new account
#useradd -u xxxx -g yyyy -d /home/username -m -s /usr/bin/ksh -c "Any Comments Here" username

Then generate a random PW for the user's initial login - they should change it.
#modprpw -x username

HTH,
Jeff

Where xxxx is the user's ID & yyyy is the group ID. Of course shell other than ksh can be specified.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Try /usr/lbin/modprpw -k username to activate a user

-USA..

[Daimian Woznick]

To check if the account is disabled run the command:

/usr/lbin/getprpw -m lockout

The seven digits should all be 0. If any are a 1, the account is disabled. As mentioned before modprpw with the k option will enable it.

The different fields in the lockout entry mean:

password lifetime exceeded
time between logins execeeded
account lifetime exceeded
unsuccessful login attempts exceeeded
null password set and not allowed
admin lock
password is "*"

Hope this helps you.