I know nothing about HP UX (yeah, except SAM). That’s why, just now, when there’s a request to just make a trace route from an HPUX server to another server, I have to login and do execute the command. I couldn’t log in as my user id so i logged in as root instead from the console.<\/p>\n
I check grep’d my account the walah! It was there! I reset the password, open an ssh terminal and tried to login. unsuccessful, that’s why i knew then that it is locked.<\/p>\n
Here’s how to unlock a locked user account in HP UX in command line.<\/p>\n
In HP-UX 11.xx if user account is locked, you can unlock the account by running SAM. But running SAM takes some time usually 2-3 minutes on heavily loaded HP-UX servers. You can unlock the locked user account from command line by running following command: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
1. Login as root or use sudo from your account, if there is no sudo<\/strong> installed just use su \u2013 root :<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n
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\n \n<\/col>\n<\/colgroup>\n \n \n $sudo su \u2013 <\/span><\/p>\n
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2.<\/span> Run this command to unlock the locked HP-UX user account: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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\n \n<\/col>\n<\/colgroup>\n \n #<\/span>\/usr\/lbin\/modprpw \u2013l \u2013k johnm<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Running modprpw will unlock the locked user account in HP-UX from command line.without running SAM <\/span><\/p>\n