OS-SCO-Admin-FAQ

A SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 sub-topic page covering system administration issues and workarounds:

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OS-SCO-Admin

OS-SCO

Login

Terminal /dev/ttyp?? is disabled -- see Account Administrator

A terminal may be locked out due to excessive login attempts.

• Workaround
  1. It is sometimes possible to make multiple, simultaneous login attempts to round-robin to a pseudo-tty that is not locked.
• Investigate

  If login is successful, check /etc/auth/system/ttys.

  1. man ttys
  2. grep lock /etc/auth/system/ttys
  3. scoadmin

     System

     Terminal Manager

     Examine

     ttyp??

  4. grep Accepted.password.for.root /var/adm/syslog

• Remediate

  After determining extent of the problem, and potential compromise of account passwords, various unlock options exist:

  1. ttyunlock ttyp??
  2. scoadmin

     System

     Terminal Manager

     Unlock

     ttyp??

  3. Host routes?

     Make sure all inbound connections are not mapped to the same public IP. This defeats use of host routes.

Shutdown

1. System will not shutdown; must be super-user message shown
   • /etc/reboot may workaround an inability to shutdown or reboot.