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Old 06-04-2009
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Originally Posted by aixlover View Post
(1) I use its serial port to connect to its console. Root access should not be a problem in this case, I think.
I see. Well, in this case you might want to think about what the difference between 'rlogin' and 'login' could be.
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Originally Posted by aixlover View Post
(2) It is a US system. I have tried different types of passwords from abc to axadf23adfddf - you know what I mean.

Thanks.
As you are sure about what characters you typed you could check next whether there is an asterisk or an exclamation mark in the password field of /etc/passwd. An asterisk would point at a problem during setting the password and also prevent you from login in. Subsequently you would then check whether the crypted password is in /etc/security/passwd.

Somewhat unlikely but possible would be that the option account_locked is set to true or the the loginretries counter is set to a positive integer with the unsuccessful_login_count exceeding that number. Run 'lsuser root' as root to find out.