Question about converting C2 users to BASE

From: Leonardo Mosquera <lmosquer_at_col1.telecom.com.co>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:09:50 -0500

Hi everybody, I have an AlphaServer with DU 4.0b and C2 installed, and I
need to convert their passwords to BASE security, so I can take the
/etc/passwd and use it in some other machine (for radius purposes) so I
won't need to give the users new passwords.

I am using another alphaserver and I restaured a backup on it so it
looks almos identical to the first one. With things in this way, I run
the /usr/tcb/bin/convuser -b command and the system starts to convert
users, everything works fine, except for some users that appear with the
word Nologin as their password, I checked them with the XIsso utility
and it claims that those users are locked, so I checked it with the
/usr/tcb/bin/edauth command and the only thing I could find faulty of
this is that the users have a lot of unsuccessful logins, always more
than the default, so I raised the default tries, but the accounts are
still blocked.

The problem affects almost 500 users and I don't want to use the XIsso
GUI to unlock their accounts to have a successful passwords conversion,
because this application takes too long, almost 30 seconds for each
user, so I want to know if someone knows a better way to do this
conversion or how to unlock all those accounts with a shell script from
a character terminal.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Leonardo Mosquera
System Manager
Internet Telecom
Colombia

Received on Wed Sep 23 1998 - 04:12:03 NZST

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