HP Virtual Machine 11iv3 guest running on VM host 11iv2

[Tom Haddad]

I have an HP VM host the has 3 VM guests.
There are 11iv3 guests.
I attempted to log in to one of them from PUTTY session as root and it failed. (password was incorrect)
I have .rhosts defined to where I can rlgoin to them (as root) from any other HPUX hosts I have. I then attempted to RLOGIN as root from another HPUX host to that same VM guest it stated that
"Access is denied by the AUTH_MAXTRIES in Security(4). Root login from the console is allowed"
Can I use HPVMCONSOLE to the VM guest and login as root? Do I need the password?

[Viktor Balogh]

> Can I use HPVMCONSOLE to the VM guest and login as root? Do I need the password?

sure you can, and you'll need the root password to get in.

[Tom Haddad]

Is the AUTH_MAXTRIES (or rules in general) ignored when using console login?

[Turgay Cavdar]

Yes.

[Tom Haddad]

So I have full functionality in console mode so I can reset its password?

[Viktor Balogh]

> So I have full functionality in console mode so I can reset its password?

Once you managed to log in: yes. You can change the password with the passwd command.

[Tom Haddad]

Before I change the password..I plan to run this to reset the login failures count...

userdbset -d -u root auth_failures

i do this for other users as needed.
Would this command apply to root also?

The -d removes the attribute auth_failures for the user specified, in the case 'root'.

[Viktor Balogh · Accepted solution]

Tom,


When an account has been locked due to too many authentication failures, root can unlock the account by this command:

# userdbset -d -u username auth_failures

And yes, this applies also to the root account.

[Tom Haddad]

Thank you all for the input.