HP: Unlock users¶
- 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 script
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