Hi All,

I am the new boy on the Block with HP-UX.

To get to the point, I have a Hp-ux (C200) workstation running on Hp-ux 11.x Operating System. A week ago when practicing on file access permission, I have set the permission on a directory (perhaps a file I am not sure) to 0544 and did some other practices and then turned the machine off with shutdown -yh 0.

When next day I powered up my machine and wanted to login as a root through CDE, I got this message:

"account locked in the commercial security database"

I tried to interrupt the boot process (to interact with ISL ) by hitting the Esc key soon after turning the power ON, but I can not interrupt the boot process.

I turn power ON, kernel gets loaded, CDE appears ready to login.

Every time I login as root, I get the above message. I do not know what to do. To make the matter worth my system is a trusted system and am not able to log in as single user either.

Can anyone help me with this please?

Many thanks.

M.H

Are you able to access the system at all ?

Or is it only as root your unable to access ?

Try changing the root password ?!? Thats assuming your able to get a ssh session on it mind you!

found these, google.com is a wonderful search engine!

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/f...hreadId=186244
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/f...threadId=94780

Hi Plimpix,

Thanks for your kind reply.

My Machine is not Networked. Just a work station (c200 HP-UX 9000 running on OS 11i).
As mentioned in my previous Thread, I am having difficulty interruping the Boot Proocess soon after powering up my mchine by using the "Esc" key.

I am hoping to break up the Boot Process so that I can login as a none root and to change the root password, perhaps to resolve this and not to get the messge below when I login as a root through the CDE:

"account locked in the commercial security database"

Currently, I turn power ON, kernel gets loaded, CDE appears ready to login and when I do login as a root I get the above message.

I will look at the links you mentioned, but will be a very happy man if I could stop the Kernel loading soon after poweing up my machine.

Hope this help you and the good people out there for suggesting a solutions.

Cheers

M.H

if u realy want to stop boot sequence, and not able to stop it by escape key then try it.

disconnect the bootable device (Physically).

when the box will unable to find the bootable device, it halts on
MA>
connect the device.
try the command.
MA>sea
MA> boot P0(or which is ur bootable device) isl
ISL> hpux -is
then the box goes in single user mod and change ur settings what u want.

Awadhesh

Hi Awadhesh,

Thanks for your reply and suggestion.

"disconnect the bootable device (Physically)".

How this is done as I am new with HP-UX?

I must say that, I pulled out the casing, which holds the hard disk/cdrom/floppy drive (front panel) and had a good look but could not fathom out, how I could do a physical disconnect.

I would be ever so thankful, if you could please elaborate and the steps I need to take so that I am able to get to MA> prompt.

Once again many thanks for your time and those who would be showing an interest in my problem.

Cheers

M.H

Ok not sure if macs are built the same as PC's but if you want to DC the bootable device take off the side panel and pull out the *i think its the IDE cable* cable that goes from the motherboard to the bootable device. The cable is a thin cable that has a long width and could also connect to the floppy drive. Not sure if im correct but its worth a try

If the boot device is a SCSI drive, it probably is, just pull the terminator from the end of the bus, usually on the SCSI header on the back pannel. Doing this will render the whole bus in opperable untill you put the terminator back on.