root account locked

[Abhijit P.]

In one of the forum yesterday I saw a reply saying to do following by aunvijai

#remsh server -n " /usr/lbin/modprpw -k root" or reboot your server in single

Please letme how to do it cause same is the case with me how can I login to the server using remsh it is enabled on my server

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Abhijit

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi,

no, it is not possible. I have tried it on a my system just for a test and you always will get that the root account is locked.
remsh works like all r-commands checking /.rhosts on the system where you try the connection.

The only one possibility is

/usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

I hope that helps you.

Best regards,
Fabio

[Rick Garland]

When the root account is locked, the most popular way to unlockit is login via the console.

There are other tricks, most notably using sudo. But this requires configuration BEFORE the account is locked.

[Abhijit P.]

Hi thanks all ,

I think I will have to reboot the server I don't have any option to do other than going in a single user mode.Actually Its my production server so I was searching through the options cause I won't get downtime easily.

Anyways thanks a lot for the replies ...

Regards,
Abhijit Panse

[Abhijit P.]

I found the solution ...