Some have responded in the case of the disabled terminal.
Their suggestion...
use
edauth -dt :0
(or whatever device is locked)
to zero out the number of excessive logins.
I did edauth, it did show a lock, I was able to remove the lock
entry *but* we still get the message "Terminal has been disabled"
when we try to login.
It was also suggested that I use the same edauth command to
zero out the number of successful logins. I did this, it accepted
the edit, but again got a *terminal is disabled...see account
adminstrator" message, and after this the old number of unsuccessful
logins, plus one, came back.
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In the case of the user whose account is locked (only on one
NIS client node, not the server) it was suggested
that I use edauth to clear out the account lock, which I did.
Only problem is, every time we try to use
passwd to change his password (which is unknown) it locks
his account out again with message
"passwd was changed by root...."
I repeat.. on the NIS server I can change his password fine
using either passwd or dxaccounts. But for some reason
the password change is not propagating to the local node.
I even backed out C2 security and reinstalled it again... no such luck,
same problem.
Any clues?
Steve Timm
Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 20:10:58 NZST