[NTLUG:Discuss] locked account

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Mon Jun 27 09:50:56 CDT 2005


Dan Wright - SPCA of Texas wrote:
> it appears that my root account has been locked
> from to many bad password attempts does anyone
> know how long the default lockout time is for
> redhat 7.3.

Have you tried from the console?  I wouldn't
think that even Red Hat would be stupid enough
to disable that.  7.3 is pretty old.  I do
have a 7.1 that's still in service, but it
doesn't have this "feature" you speak of.




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