Root login disable.

[Sayed Khaja Reazuddin R]

Dear Gurus,
One of my servers running on HPUX11.11,When do telnet it gives the following error "HP-UX nfmemm1 B.11.11 U 9000/800 (t9b)

login: root
Password:
Account is disabled - see Account Administrator

Wait for login exit: ..


Your connection has been terminated"
which running on SD32000.The main problem i that users are unabale to get in data thru fcp,rcp,ftam etc all my scripts are hanging.
TO resolve i have done patch installation also the latest libpam patch.
I need youR HELP'S....

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
can you get to the machine console to enable your account. Without access it will be difficult to work out what the problem is that is affecting all your users.

I assume this access used to be working ?!

Please read:
http://66.34.90.71/ITRCForumsEtiquette/after.html

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

[Sayed Khaja Reazuddin R]

Hi Peter,

First i thank you for your quick reply.On console i can get in.This server is part of NMS server for 5ess switches.Most of the users connect remotely to collect data by ftp,rcp& ftam etc.

Thx,
Syed.

[DCE]

Since you can log on to the server - issue the following command

/usr/lbin/modprpw -k root

this should enable the account

[Bill Hassell]

Once you have enabled the root account, you need to determine why the account was disabled. Most likely, someone tried to login to the root account and did not know the password. The default retry is 3 so even a trusted administrator may have made a mistake (ie, capsLock or numLock on the keyboard). But there is also the possibility that somone is attempting to break into your machine. Look at the command:

lastb -R -30 root

These are failures to login correctly. The hostname or IP address shows the attempt location.

[Sayed Khaja Reazuddin R]

Dear Peter,Bill & DCE.

This is a pecular problem,it is not a issue of NUM lock or passwd ageing etc.
Any how i open a ticket with HP and they raise it to Competency center, i will share the information as when i recevied from them.
Thanks,
Syed.