From: vikram sachdeva (vikram_dude@softhome.net)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 13:28:25 EDT
Hello
I got many responses .Thanks to Harry Singh, Ann.Most of them suggested
to use usermod command But that didn't work in my case. But the reply of
Benjamin Smith was most accurate and it worked in my case
Here is the reply
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Smith [mailto:smith.benjamin@epamail.epa.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 11:59 PM
To: vikram sachdeva
Subject: Re: Root password expired
dunno if this will help,
try /tcb/bin/edauth root
which will dump into an editor (ed or vi) and you can update the
u_pwd=aaaa
variable, to :u_pwd=:
save the file,
this should allow you to update the password via passwd.
vikram sachdeva wrote:
>
> Hello All
>
> We are facing problem in our AlphaServer 100 with Tru64Unix 4.0F.The
> problem is all the user account's including root have expired.We have
C2
> Security enabled and we have set expiration date for password to be 1
> month.I have checked the archieve but problem is not solved by
> implementing the soln.
>
> The present scene is no one (including root) is able to login into the
> system. After entering password it again comes to login prompt(CDE).
>
> I have tried the following things
>
> 1. >>> b -fl s
> 2. >>> bcheckrc
> 3. >>> passwd root
> After entering the above command it displays the following
> message
> "Password Can't be changed. Password has expired."
> After that it comes to the "#" prompt again.
>
> 4.Also tried #usermod -x administrative_lock_applied=0 root
>
> 5 . Edit the /tcb/files/auth/r/root .But I couldn't file any field
> u_pwd=<>
> or u_succhg#<timestamp....> as described in the mailing list
> archieve.
>
>
> Please help.
>
> Regards
> Vikram
>
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