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RenK

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Registered: 2010-11-27

Posts: 6

Account locked problem.

Hello,

Sorry if the question qualifies as below noob, but I did try a few things and couldn't get it to work. The error I keep getting is, "Account locked due to * failed logins" where * is incremented by 1,  when I keep trying to login. Account type is normal. I created it and set password with

#useradd account -s /bin/bash -d /home/account -m
#passwd account
[passwordhere]
#su account

I had used it a for a week. Then one day I tried to login too carelessly and ended up with 5/6 login failed attempts. To this day it won't work. I tried to unlock using below, but no worky. The weird part is, if I ssh from another box to this one and use account to login, it works fine. What am I missing? Thanks

#passwd -u account
#usermod -u account

Ashren

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2007-06-13

Posts: 1,229

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Re: Account locked problem.

faillog -r -u <user>

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