Comments on: First taste of HP-UX system administration

By: Jav

Jav — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:53:37 +0000

How do I restrict number of sessions per user on a hp server . User sessions are showing up as “pts/txy”

By: am_7riel

am_7riel — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:15:08 +0000

hey man,yeah the hp-ux is real simple i mean not as hard as i imagined when i came into unix or linux world.The command is similar but syntax is different. I still like getting to get used with it,since i am now jumping from unix sysadmin to now hp-ux sysadmin and ibm-aix.Hope i can come frequent here to check if any issue arised later or maybe in touch with you personally if i could not find it HP site about it.

By: esha

esha — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:29:30 +0000

Command to check full path for directory that been shortcut : example $ for SUNOS. Anyone?

By: Anusha

Anusha — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:57:15 +0000

what is the comand that is used to check the hardware failures?

By: Arun

Arun — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:29:06 +0000

how to create the users under some directory for Ex : /opt

By: raj

raj — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:44:44 +0000

its nice that we all share our knowlage
i want to know 2 things
1> how we copy data from one physical volume to other physical volume in same volume group.
2> what is logical partition

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:44:54 +0000

Use -e mm/dd/yy

For example Specifies the date on which user vivek login can no longer be used after Jan-28-07
useradd -e 1/28/07 vivek

PS: don’t put your email id in public, you will be spam to death by bots ;)

By: Shabi

Shabi — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:52:15 +0000

Can somebody help me on following query.
How to set life time of user in command line?
I mean if one username required only to till some date say 23/05/2007, then how will we specify with useradd command when we create a user account

mail me vvsha1980@gmail.com

Regards
Shabi

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:58:00 +0000

You can’t use vi to re-enable an account if you are using password aging or “trusted” password databases, and the user is aged out or locked out due to too many login failures.

To enable a disabled HP-UX account via the command line, run one of these commands:

/usr/lbin/modprpw -l -k username

/usr/lbin/modprpw -l -x username

The first one re-enables the account; the second one re-enables the account and generates a new random password; -l means you are using a “local” files database. You’d need different options if you are using NIS. Run modprpw with no arguments to see the possibilities (not what they mean, but at least you know what they are).

I haven’t found documentation for modprpw; I just found these command in my “samlog” after using sam to re-enable accounts.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B3921-90010/modprpw.1M.html

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:47:00 +0000

You use following commands:
Lock HP-UX user account with the following command:
passwd -l {username}

Unlock HP-UX user account by edit (using vi text editor):
vi /etc/passwd

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:55:00 +0000

Is there a way to enable a ‘disabled’ HP-UX account thro command line.
I do not want to use SAM
..
Regards
Vijay

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:37:00 +0000

Glad to hear you like HP-UX, it’s a great OS and I hope to read more about your work with it.

Let us know about any snags you run into and maybe we can give you a hand.

By: bill

bill — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:37:00 +0000

Hee HP-UX is always fun. You *reminder* me the old days when I use to work with MC ServiceGuard with HP-UX :) it was fun and boy HP-UX rocks. I hope you will enjoy it too… ALL THE BEST.

Regards,
Bill