This is most likely that the account is exither expired, or the password is locked, but these types of things shouldn't be happening for the root account.
Run logins -axl and look for a LK instead of a PS, also check the very last 6 digit field and see if it set to a date in the past. Check the logins manpage for all of the -x options you see below and what exactly they do.
Hello All,
I work as a system admin at a company of about 600 users on a HP-UX server. We have an IT department of about 15. My problem is that we give out the root password to the majority of them, they are phone support techs, as they need to get in to kill processes and setup users and... (4 Replies)
I'm running sendmail (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) solaris 10.
When I send mail to root at the command line (whether I use a full-qualified address or just root), I get the error message
root... User address required.
Sending mail to root (either at the command line or in a cron job),... (10 Replies)
Does anyone know if this is possible?
I want to give some users access to root's crontab but only with a read privilege.
Is this possible to do or can only root or people with full root sudo view root's cron? (4 Replies)
Hallo,
i need a Prompting read in my script:
read -p "Enter your command: " command
But i always get this Error:
-p: is not an identifier
When I run these in c-shell i get this error
/usr/bin/read: read: bad option(s)
How can I use a Prompt in the read command? (9 Replies)
I am trying to install openmotif22-2.2.3-18.src.rpm,
after I typed in " rpm -i openmotif22-2.2.3-18.src.rpm"
the following message comes out:
warning: user owen does not exist - using root
warning: group owen does not exist - using root
I am install openmotif under root account.
Do... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am seeing the following errors in my environment, not sure why is it happening, any ideas? Thanks.
kernel: RPC: bad TCP reclen 0x73746174 (non-terminal ) Dec 17 02:14:48 kernel: RPC: bad TCP reclen 0x63480000 (large) Dec 17 02:14:48
kernel: RPC: bad TCP reclen 0x633f0000 (large) Dec... (5 Replies)
Our AIX servers send e-mails which have the "from" address set to "root@company.com" for our root user ("C{M}company.com" in /etc/sendmail.cf). The problem is that when bad e-mails are sent out or rejected by remote servers, they are being returned and delivered to e-mail box of "Mary Root".
... (2 Replies)
I am looking t run root level command on multiple servers, but all servers have only "su - " permission available in sudoers.
please help me if any way that I can run command using help of "su -"
My script
for hosts in `cat hosts.txt`;
do
echo "###########################Server Name-... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OSX
logins
logins(1M) System Administration Commands logins(1M)NAME
logins - list user and system login information
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/logins [-admopstux] [-g group...] [-l login_name...]
DESCRIPTION
This command displays information on user and system logins known to the system. Contents of the output is controlled by the command
options and can include the following: user or system login, user id number, passwd account field value (user name or other information),
primary group name, primary group id, multiple group names, multiple group ids, home directory, login shell, and four password aging param-
eters. The default information is the following: login id, user id, primary group name, primary group id and the account field value. Out-
put is sorted by user id, system logins, followed by user logins.
OPTIONS
Options may be used together. If so, any login that matches any criteria are displayed.
The following options are supported:
-a Add two password expiration fields to the display. The fields show how many days a password can remain unused before it
automatically becomes inactive, and the date that the password expires.
-d Selects logins with duplicate uids.
-g group Selects all users belonging to group, sorted by login. Multiple groups can be specified as a comma-separated list. When
the -l and -g options are combined, a user is only listed once, even if the user belongs to more than one of the selected
groups.
-l login_name...Selects the requested login. Multiple logins can be specified as a comma-separated list. Depending on the nameservice
lookup types set in /etc/nsswitch.conf, the information can come from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files and other
nameservices. When the -l and -g options are combined, a user is only listed once, even if the user belongs to more than
one of the selected groups.
-m Displays multiple group membership information.
-o Formats output into one line of colon-separated fields.
-p Selects logins with no passwords.
-s Selects all system logins.
-t Sorts output by login instead of by uid.
-u Selects all user logins.
-x Prints an extended set of information about each selected user. The extended information includes home directory, login
shell and password aging information, each displayed on a separate line. The password information consists of password
status (PS for password, NP for no password or LK for locked). If the login is passworded, status is followed by the date
the password was last changed, the number of days required between changes, and the number of days allowed before a change
is required. The password aging information shows the time interval that the user receives a password expiration warning
message (when logging on) before the password expires.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 5 Jul 1990 logins(1M)