dxaccounts - account has red spot with whitecross next to it

[A.W.R]

Hi,

I have a Tru64UNIX system that uses dxaccounts to manage the users.

In dxaccounts some of the users have a red spot with white cross next to their user names.

I did try to reset the password , but the spot did not disappear. The account also looks pretty normal - it is not locked.

If someone knows what this means and how I can get rid of it I would really appreciate it?

Thanks
Andrew

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Probably the user has been "Retired". That would be the same as "deleted" in Enhanced Security.

Do the following:

grep /etc/passwd

If you see the key Retired, then the user was "deleted" for example with userdel. If you want to really delete the user, you must edit the passwd file and remove the entry from tcb database.

[Venkatesh BL]

Did you try the Help -> Reference -> Account Manager Main Window

This may have an indication.

[A.W.R]

Hi,

Thank you for your responses.

I did check out the online help, but I could not find any reference to this particular icon.

Is it possible to "unretire" an account?

Thanks
Andy

[Martin Moore]

Andrew,

It could mean that the account is either retired or has been disabled by the system for violating some of the security parameters. These include:

1. Too many consecutive login failures.

2. Exceeded password lifetime.

3. Account inactive too long.

You need to clear the disabling condition in order to make the account usable again. To figure out what they are, can you run "edauth -g " and post the results here? Note that this will include the user's current encrypted password (the field following "u_pwd=" up to the next colon) and recent password history (the field following "u_pwdict=" up to the next colon) so you may want to X those out before posting.

Martin

[Mark Poeschl_2]

You can also use the big green "Enable" checkbox in dxaccounts to re-enable an account that has been disabled for whatever reason (and has the red and white 'X').