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AIX 5.3 ADMCHG flag conflict

Posted in AIX on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On AIX 5.3 when root changes a users password the ADMCHG flag is set in /etc/security/passwd as it is with previous versions.
When adding a new user, is after setting the initial password from root, remove the ADMCHG flag for that user from /etc/security/passwd.
This allows the user to keep the initial password until he [...]

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Reset user ID locked in AIX

Posted in AIX on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

# chsec -f /etc/security/lastlog -a “unsuccessful_login_count=0″ -s username
# chuser “account_locked=false” username
# passwd username
Done

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