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Copying a user profile

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generaal

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Jan 11, 2007
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Hi all

I have had to copy a user profile to a workstation. I did a retore of his data from the backup server and copied all his details. I exported his directory from the workstation to the server, and i can access his /home directory from the server. Problem is, i cannot login as the user. i can login as the already existing user. I can su to both users from root

From root, I can actually su to the new user profile. From there, I can su to the existing user. But if i su to the existing user, and from there to the new user, i get the following error:

uungerc-rsqa01:/home/uungerc#su - unortjea
unortjea's Password:
3004-501 Cannot su to "unortjea" : Authentication is denied.
uungerc-rsqa01:/home/uungerc#

I checked for expiration of password, but all users have a 0 value for that.
 
Hmmm,
What version of AIX OS are you running?

Check for "account_locked" attribute of the user unortjea, is it true or false. If it's true change it to false.

SARFARAZ AHMED SYED,
Sr. Systems Engineer
 
His workstation used to be AIX 4.3, the new one is AIX 5.3. His account_locked attribute was already set to false.
 
I suggest you login as root, force set the password for the user and then try to login. This may be as simple as a wrong password.
If this does not help, please paste the output of [tt]lsuser unortjea[/tt]. Since you are testing by issuing [tt]su -[/tt] it has to be set: [tt]su=true[/tt].

 
Hello,

I used passwd unortjea, and then changed the password. I then logged in as unortjea, but was prompted to change the password. As soon as i did that, I got and error and the login screen went blank( I used X-Win to access his workstation). I don't know where that error will be logged. I first tested it on a test user that i setup years ago, and i worked for that user.

Output of user's .profile:

set -o vi
VISUAL=/usr/bin/vi
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/vwbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib:/vw/vwsa/cadview/cadview2.27D
export VISUAL PATH

if [ -s "$MAIL" ] # This is at Shell startup. In normal
then echo "$MAILMSG" # operation, the Shell checks
fi # periodically.
export PS1="$USER-`uname -n`:\$PWD#"
alias l="ls -lt"
alias df='df -k'
#The following line is added by License Use Management installation
export PATH=$PATH:/var/ifor:/usr/opt/ifor/ls/conf

#The following is required for CADVIEW to find its configuration settings
PATH=$PATH:/vw/vwsa/cadview/bin/
CVFILEPATH=/vw/vwsa/cadview/cadview2.27D
export PATH CVFILEPATH

# Konzern Referenz environment variables
K_PATH=/vwsa
K_DATA=/vwsadat

V4_LOCGII=/vwsa/catia/local/gii
V4_LOCIUA=/vwsa/catia/local/iua

export K_PATH K_DATA V4_LOCGII V4_LOCIUA

PATH=$PATH:/$K_PATH/catia/bin:/vwsa/catia/local/gii:/vwsa/catia/local/iua:/vwsa/bin

export AudimessDoc=/vwsa/catia/local/gii/man/audimess/IQMDOKU

export PATH

export MyEditorIs='/usr/dt/bin/dtpad'




Output of luser unortjea:

unortjea id=361 pgrp=qagrp groups=qagrp,plossys home=/home/unortjea shell=/usr/bin/ksh login=true su=true rlogin=true daemon=true admin=false sugroups=ALL admgroups= tpath=nosak ttys=ALL expires=0 auth1=SYSTEM auth2=NONE umask=22 registry=files SYSTEM=compat logintimes= loginretries=0 pwdwarntime=0 account_locked=false minage=0 maxage=0 maxexpired=-1 minalpha=0 minother=0 mindiff=0 maxrepeats=8 minlen=0 histexpire=0 histsize=0 pwdchecks= dictionlist= fsize=2097151 cpu=-1 data=262144 stack=65536 core=2097151 rss=65536 nofiles=2000 time_last_unsuccessful_login=1384802818 tty_last_unsuccessful_login=t-systems1_vwza_ host_last_unsuccessful_login=t-systems1.vwza.emea.vwg:1 unsuccessful_login_count=22 roles=


 
Hi guys, I tried to change his password again, for some reason it worked now. I logged in and everything seems fine. I was so sure it couldn't be something as simple as changing his password, since he has used the same one for many years now, I actually still remembered his password.

Thanks for the help
 
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