Accounts disabled

[agape234]

New to Linux, but fair knowledge of UNIX stuff
I have inherited a stripped down Linux server that has apparently had some services, commands etc, trimmed back to enhance for sercurity purposes. I am trying to enable exsisting user accounts and change password settings, (number of failed attempts, passwd expire, etc.) Does the usual passwd -# username command not work? The man pages have been stripped as well for some reason. The previous admin for the box is not available for ????

 

[RhythmAce]

If you know what distro you have, you can do an upgrade and install all the packages that are missing. Without knowing what you have and don't have, makes it a little rough to help you. To find out what you are running, try "uname -a" at the shell or better yet, "telnet localhost".

 

[fluid11]

FYI - the message displayed during a telnet session is from the /etc/issue file

ChrisP