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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 07:44:53 -0700
To: Tru64 <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>

Apparently my passwd expired and upon entering the new passwd the second
time I must have made a typo and now can't login. Moreover, this was done
from telnet (Putty on W2K) and it simply blows the screen away

I tried usermod to remove lock, and...

# usermod -x administrative_lock_applied=0 tom
useradd: Am /etc/.AM_is_running Account Manager lock file has been detected.
 This may indicate one of the following process with
 process-ID 924 is using the Account Manager databases.

        dxaccounts useradd usermod userdel
        groupadd groupmod groupdel

Please remove the lock file if the process does not exist
and re-start the Account Manager.

OK, the process does not exist so,
1. How do I find the lock file so I can remove it?
2. How do I restart the Account Manager?

This seems unnecessarily complicated to me. Moreover, having mistakenly
reentered the new password shouldn't have triggered such a series of events.

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