HP-UX

I have never seen behavior like that. What version of HP-UX are you running? Was it in C2 security mode? After "hpux -is", does the system boot up? What kind of username prompt do you get...a standard login prompt? What kind of hardware are you running on?

At the isl prompt, type "lsa" and post the results.

Thanks for the help. Here's the answers to your questions.

HP-UX 10.20
I don't know what C2 security mode is.
The system does boot up.
I'm not sure what you mean by standard login prompt, but the login prompt I get is plain text:

Boot Authentication:

Please enter your login name:
Password:
Authentication incorrect.

HP C3600


At the ISL prompt I get this:

ISL>lsa

Auto-execute file contains:
hpux

C2 refers to a level of trusted systems. I believe that you may actually be running a B level version of HP-UX which has military grade security features. I have some experience with 10.0 at C2 and it didn't behave like your system is. I'm not sure how much I can help you, but I do have a couple of ideas.

What does "The weird thing is that I changed the passwords for other users as well and have acheived the same results." mean? That these accounts are also screwed up? Can you login as any user?

There is a problem that you may have stumbled into: according to the termio man page, the default ERASE character is # and the default KILL character is @. There are ways to change these defaults, but unless you did, neither character will be a reasonable choice for use in a password. In a shell where you have changed your ERASE and KILL characters, they will work with the su command. But they won't work with a login prompt. If this is your problem, you may be able to login as an ordinary user, change your ERASE and KILL characters, and then su to root. You might give this a try.

This sounds like my systems.

I was doing a password reset for all my users. I tested the accounts multiple times, but none of them work. I cannot login to the workstation from the login prompt with any user acct. I think I am screwed.

The termino issue sounds like it may have a hand in the problem, as my root does have those characters in it, but my users do not.

Oh well, thanks for the help.