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1. Solaris
Hello everybody, hope you all are having a good day.
Here is our (my) situation...
We have a process where we clone Solaris 8 hard disk drives then have to configure each drive for the system they will be used in. In the old cloning image the root password never expired. We also have... (7 Replies)
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2. Solaris
Never expired for root password
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I want to change the setting to keep the root password to be nerved expired!
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a requirement to check whose accounts are expired in Linux machine and send a mail to root user about the accounts. How can i achieve this in Linux? (1 Reply)
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4. AIX
I rolled out sudo (1.7.2p7) to my AIX system (6100-06-01-1043) some time ago. Because I was using "sudo su -" I did not update my root password before it expired as a result of maxexpire.
Now I find that the root account has expired and I cannot find any way of "unexpiring" it.
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5. AIX
currently, my samba login works just fine. i want my clients to use aix5.3 account to login to samba so they don't have to change samba pwd and aix pwd. i googled, and vi /usr/lib/smb.conf per some of knowledge base, but i could not get to work.
aix5.3 and samba 3.0.24.0
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am an administrator of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.
Now one account expired. I wonder how to reactivate the account.
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7. Solaris
We have expiration set on the root password for 30 days. the only way to login as root remotley is login as another user and then su as root. I logged in to the machine today tried to su as root, and got the message
password has expired, use passwd to change
but i cant get in as root..
If... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: csaunders
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi all,
I am using redhat linux version 9 .I am unable to login to the system and i am getting a warninig sorry root account is expired . How can i activate the account. (2 Replies)
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9. HP-UX
The root pwd on an hpux11i box was changed by an ex-employee. Is there anyway to reset it without shutting down the machine? If not how can I do it..
Thanks in Advance
Brian (6 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How do you get the $PWD env variable set for root? I know it's automatic for korn and other shells, but root uses /usr/bin/sh. (5 Replies)
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vipw(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands vipw(1B)
NAME
vipw - edit the password file
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/vipw
DESCRIPTION
vipw edits the password file while setting the appropriate locks, and does any necessary processing after the password file is unlocked. If
the password file is already being edited, then you will be told to try again later. The vi(1) editor will be used unless the environment
variable VISUAL or EDITOR indicates an alternate editor.
vipw performs a number of consistency checks on the password entry for root, and will not allow a password file with a "mangled" root entry
to be installed. It also checks the /etc/shells file to verify the login shell for root.
FILES
/etc/ptmp
/etc/shells
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
passwd(1), vi(1), passwd(4), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 vipw(1B)