HP-UX password with special characters

September 24, 2020

Problem

One day I tried to log in on my HP-UX and got the below error, which showed that my account is disabled and I need to contact the account administrator.

login as: root
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Account is disabled - see Account Administrator
Access denied

After that, I tried to log in to the system through the console but got the below error message.

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Console Login: root
Password:
Account is disabled but console login is allowed.
Login incorrect

Reason

My account became disabled due to multiple incorrect login attempts, actually, I had given the wrong password. But on the console, I had given the correct password but it was not accepted because the password was having special character @.

Solution

I got the correct password which was daw@1 and tried to log in to this machine through the console but got the below message. It was showing the message that the login was incorrect while I was giving the correct password.

login: root
Password:
Account is disabled but console login is allowed.
Login incorrect

I tried many times but it was not accepting the password daw@1. Finally, I found the solution that the HP-UX console does not accept the special characters in the password. For passwords with special characters like @, you need to quote the special character with “\“. In my case, I have given the password as daw\@1 and successfully log in to the system.

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Console Login: root
Password:
Last successful login for root: Tue Sep 15 19:47:51 IST-5:30 2020
Last unsuccessful login for root: Tue Sep 15 19:47:34 IST-5:30 2020
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Last Updated: September 24, 2020

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