User password problem on a password policy applied box

[a bv]

thats what we have done. a user which is a member of wheel group now
can not login cause of the password. what ill try to do is make this
user able to login.

regards

2009/12/25 Tom Curl <tcurl at enertex.com>:
> What you want to do is disable a security feature that prevents users
> from logging in as root using a GUI screen. You would be better advised
> to educate your users to log in using a non-privileged user name and
> then use a terminal window for performing root commands. Or you could
> add the user who needs these privileges to the "wheel" group or enable
> their privileges using "visudo".
>
> You can google on these terms or use the man function if you need
> assistance.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 10:35 +0200, a bv wrote:
>> Hi,
>> On a Redhat 4x or 5x box which password policy applied  a user with
>> sudo permissions cant login cause of the  password not accepted. The
>> root pasword is  not reachable and the box is a production machine
>> which is serving services and cant be rebooted easily. Cause the
>> password policy makes the user change its policy, the user thinks if
>> he have fogotten or not the recent password. But trying the similar
>> passwords didnt worked, and he thinks if his user account is locked
>> for a long time. So how can this issue can be fixed?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>
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