Login account dead.

[Kenny Chau]

Dear all,

When I type "who", I got the following results:
uxadm pts/ta Oct 16 10:59
opr pts/tc Oct 5 17:41

When I type "ps -t pts/tc", I got the following:
$ ps -t pts/tc
PID TTY TIME COMMAND

Is there any way to kill this dead login in this machine beside rebooting the server?

Thanks very much.

[harry d brown jr]

I think it has to do with your wtmp or btmp file.

[zhoufeilong]

Hi Kenny:
I think uxadm is a system user.
You must use root to display its UID.
#ps -t pts/tc
Not "$ps -t pts/tc".

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Have a look at the following document, it should fix your problem. There is no need to reboot your server.

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=6058bf0d178624316e/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000054599385

HTH
-Michael

[Kenny Chau]

Thanks Michael,

This document helps me to delete the dead login. However, the step 4 had hanged for a long time and I had broken this process and amend the command "fwtmp -ic /tmp/utmp.binary" and skip step 5.

Anyway, thanks for your help and information.