[Fedora-directory-users] Failed attempts & Locked accounts ... unlock ?

Richard Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Tue Jan 16 20:31:30 UTC 2007


clockwork at sigsys.org wrote:
> Those attributes dont show up using ldapsearch
They are operational attributes and must be listed explicitly at the end 
of the ldapsearch command line.
> and ldapmodify throws an error:
>
> $ ldapmodify -D -x -w $password "cn=Directory Manager"  
> uid=$user,ou=People,dc=blah,dc=com changetype: modify delete: 
> passwordRetryCount - changetype: modify delete: accountUnlockTime
>
> produces:
> ldapmodify: No match.
try ldapmodify -x -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w $password ......
>
> Running ldapsearch shows the user info, but nothing about that 
> specific field.
>
> Admittedly I am a bit new to this, I had seen the FAQ/wiki, but since 
> it didnt work I figured I would ask. Perhaps the wiki it out of date ? 
> Or is my syntax wrong ?
>
> Regards.
>
>
> On 1/16/07, *Richard Megginson* <rmeggins at redhat.com 
> <mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     clockwork at sigsys.org <mailto:clockwork at sigsys.org> wrote:
>     > So I have a pair of FDS servers and a few users automate scripts to
>     > run against some development boxes, if they use the wrong
>     password the
>     > essentially surpass the max retry limit. After looking around I
>     cannot
>     > find an easy way to unlock the accounts. They are logging into RHEL,
>     > Solaris 9 & 10 systems. The output in the logs is like so:
>     >
>     > error: PAM: Authentication failed for $USER from $IP
>     >
>     > Is there some magic field that needs to be reset to unlock the
>     account ?
>     http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:PasswordReset
>     >
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