User password problem on a password policy applied box

[Tom Curl]

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
>