User password problem on a password policy applied box

[Tom Curl]

I have not seen the situation you are describing. Let me be sure I
understand:

You have a user - user1
User1 has a password - UserOne$

You have added user1 to the wheel group.

Now, when user1 tries to logon via the GUI, and enters the password
UserOne$ the logon is disallowed?



On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 15:43 +0200, a bv wrote:
> thats what we have done. a user which is a member of wheel group now
> can not login cause of the password. what ill try to do is make this
> user able to login.
> 
> regards
> 
> 2009/12/25 Tom Curl <tcurl at enertex.com>:
> > What you want to do is disable a security feature that prevents users
> > from logging in as root using a GUI screen. You would be better advised
> > to educate your users to log in using a non-privileged user name and
> > then use a terminal window for performing root commands. Or you could
> > add the user who needs these privileges to the "wheel" group or enable
> > their privileges using "visudo".
> >
> > You can google on these terms or use the man function if you need
> > assistance.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 10:35 +0200, a bv wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> On a Redhat 4x or 5x box which password policy applied  a user with
> >> sudo permissions cant login cause of the  password not accepted. The
> >> root pasword is  not reachable and the box is a production machine
> >> which is serving services and cant be rebooted easily. Cause the
> >> password policy makes the user change its policy, the user thinks if
> >> he have fogotten or not the recent password. But trying the similar
> >> passwords didnt worked, and he thinks if his user account is locked
> >> for a long time. So how can this issue can be fixed?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >
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