Unlocking Console

[Piyush S]

Is there any way to unlock the console of the HP-UX workstation without physically going there

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
I don't quite understand the question.

What do you mean by a locked console ?

If the screen is locked by a screen saver, the user password should be used to unlock it. The lock would only prevent access via the keyboard. If networked, you should still be able to connect to it.

Could you please provide more details.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

No this is not possible since this is a GUI on console.

The onlything you can do is to kill the user session logged at console, which will allow someone to relogin on console or ask them to use TUI session.

HTH,
Devender

[rariasn]

Hi,

# ps -ef|grep -i lock|grep -v grep
root 8355 4618 0 12:55:41 pts/0 0:00 lock
# kill 8355

rgs,

[Piyush S]

Hi
there is no such process as lock if you try ps -ef

I want to know whether there is any process that i can kill ( like we have xlock in SGI IRIX ) so that the console gets unlocked

Regds
Piyush

[Alex Glennie]

Not sure exactly what you mean but this maybe of some use.

dtscreen in the process that controls locking of the local console (monitor) under CDE.

[Piyush S]

I think Devender Khatana is right.

I also do the same thing , but out of curiosity I wanted to know whether there is any other method.

Anyways thanks to all for your suggestions

Regds
Piyush