On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 06:19:13PM +0530, Un|tZ wrote: > > i was checking out the passwd -l (to lock a particular > account) option on one of my linux systems ... I found > that it locked the account alrite and then i tried to > unlock the account by using the passwd -u option and i > failed. i mean, the -u option shows that the account > has been unlocked but when i try to login with the same > user account, the login fails ... Now this has affected > all the users on my system. I can't seem to login from > any of the users except root. Please help me out from > this mess. > ---end quoted text---
This seems to be a genuine mess. There is no reason why the passwords for *all* users should be blocked when you use 'passwd -l user-joe' ... Or, did you use a generic password block with only 'passwd -l' ? In any case, with most distros 'passwd -u' should recover fully. The rea- son for this mess is difficult to guess. However, for recovery action, this is what you do: Suppose on your system you have users tom, dick, harry.. o As root do, serially for tom, dick, harry .... #passwd tom To the prompt "New password :" press [Enter]. You will get a warning of "Bad Password", but ignore it. Press [Enter] again to the prompt "Re-enter new password". o What you have just done is to remove all passwords for *all* users tom, dick, harry .... yes, you have to do this thing for *all* users manually. No other go. o Instruct *all* your users to press [Enter] when prom- pted for password. Once within their shells, they can make their own "secret" passwords, by invoking passwd program as user. HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Lesser used commands (rev) LOST #161 To reverse the characters in a file use the rev command. e.g. If there is a file called Hello with just "Hello World" in it: $cat Hello ... output is ... Hello World $rev Hello ... outout is ... dlroW olleH !! ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
