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HP: Unlock users
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:Title:        HP: Unlock users
:Author:       Douglas O'Leary <dkoleary@olearycomputers.com>
:Description:  HP: Unlock users
:Date created: 11/05/96
:Date updated: 02/14/00
:Disclaimer:   Standard: Use the information that follows at your own risk.  If you screw up a system, don't blame it on me...

Copy of a message sent to comp.sys.hp.hpux on/about 11/5/96.

Hello, all

Thanks for all the inputs. Most of them made mention of going through sam to 
unlock the accounts. Others made mention of resetting the passwords. I tried 
that and it doesn't work; the administrative lock is still there.

So, I ended up calling HP; they said "Go through SAM". I don't want to go 
through sam because I have a fairly congested network and it's too bloody 
slow.  There has to be a way to go through the command line. HP was 
apparently having some problems with finding the right command line so, 
while I was on the phone with them, I started looking into it. (Side note: 
According to HP, there is no command line option to unlock user accounts)

The flag in the /tcb/files/auth/<letter>/<name> file that causes the lock out 
is "u_numunsuclog" You sed that out of the file and the user can log back 
in. I created a :download:`script <unlock.txt>` that will do that for me. 
The script is below should anyone else care to use it. Obviously, you'll 
have to run it as root; however, if you can muck with the password file 
through SAM, you probably already have root authority...

Hope this helps someone; Thanks again for all the tips and time.

Doug O'Leary