User password problem on a password policy applied box

a bv vbavbalist at gmail.com
Fri Dec 25 15:09:13 UTC 2009


The user was able to logon  for along time but cant know. situation can be:

-The user doesnt know/remember the current password
-The user maybe locked  for passwpord attempts? dont know yet how the
pam is configured

etc.
2009/12/25 Tom Curl <tcurl at enertex.com>:
> 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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