asking for password change again!

[Julio M Baptista]

hello, one of the hp-ux server is asking a user to change his password again and again. He changed it 3 times, still no luck. please help urgent. Appreciated.

[點燃 · Accepted solution]

What error message you are receiving? What type of a user account it is? local/NIS?
checked your /etc/passwd for any errors?

[Julio M Baptista]

it is keep asking for changing password. changed it many times. it is local user and not nis. what to check in passwd file?

[點燃]

Was there any changes made to the /etc/passwd fle lately? what shell the user is using?

[Julio M Baptista]

senhor excelente!
it was having the passwd command listed and not any shell.i chenge it to /usr/bin/ksh and issue fixed. thank you.

one more question
i am chenging password of one local user as root. but it gives error "Password can not be changed. Reason: Password lifetime has passed. " please help.

muito obrigado
Julio

[Dennis Handly]

>but it gives error "Password can not be changed. Reason: Password lifetime has passed."

Are you using trusted, standard or shadow passwords?
What does the line in /etc/passwd look like?

[點燃]

Well that's strange.
To answer your second question, the user account must have been locked if the password lifetime is passed. You need to reacticte it. If it is a trusted system, you can do this by /usr/lbin/modprpw -k command. Check the status using /usr/lbin/getprpw |grep -i lockout. (it should be having all zeros if unlocked). Now try to change the password using passwd command as root.

hth!

[Julio M Baptista]

wow!! thanks for the help. the modprpw command worked and i could chenge password after that. Thanks again guys for helping fast responses. i am learnig hpux and need your help more.

cheers Julio.

[Julio M Baptista]

fast help. appreciate this forum.