User password problem on a password policy applied box

[Tom Curl]

If you know the root password, you can logon from a terminal screen.
Just do CNTL + ALT + F2. You will get a terminal screen. Logon by
entering root + ENTER. You will be asked for the root password. After
you after you have logged type passwd and the username to change to user
password.


 on On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 17:09 +0200, a bv wrote:
> 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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