From: Tom Linden (tom@kednos.com)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 10:44:53 EDT
Apparently my passwd expired and upon entering the new passwd the second
time I must have made a typo and now can't login. Moreover, this was done
from telnet (Putty on W2K) and it simply blows the screen away
I tried usermod to remove lock, and...
# usermod -x administrative_lock_applied=0 tom
useradd: Am /etc/.AM_is_running Account Manager lock file has been detected.
This may indicate one of the following process with
process-ID 924 is using the Account Manager databases.
dxaccounts useradd usermod userdel
groupadd groupmod groupdel
Please remove the lock file if the process does not exist
and re-start the Account Manager.
OK, the process does not exist so,
1. How do I find the lock file so I can remove it?
2. How do I restart the Account Manager?
This seems unnecessarily complicated to me. Moreover, having mistakenly
reentered the new password shouldn't have triggered such a series of events.
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