11-08-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by izy100
Another way is passwd -N oracle
He said Solaris 9 and "passwd -N" first arrives with Solaris 10. I was not familiar with "passwd -N" but after playing with it, I do not think it will help here. Once you "passwd -N" the oracle account, then what? You still need sudo.
Solaris 9
passwd -l
sets encrypted passwd field to *LK*
Solaris 10
passwd -l
Prepends *LK* to encrypted passwd field -- and you can use "passwd -u" to restore orig passwd
passwd -N
sets encrypted passwd field to NP
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