Unable to login with Root user PAM: User account has expired in Solaris
When i try to login to root user after installation using putty, i face some authentication error even though i give correct password.
When i checked the shadow file i can see some alphanumeric code in root entry like this
root@solaris:/# cat /etc/shadow |grep root
root:$5$rounds=10000$LLUf8IA3$A3HZoGOAyXB6Rdx0jmNiy/3buKaZWS7eY78Aa7icucB:18777::::::
After sometime i searched over internet and find a solution to modify the shadow file only for root entry which was still not working
root::::::::I got the below error
-bash-4.4$ su - root
Password:
Roles can only be assumed by authorized users
su: Permission denied
and
PAM: User account has expired
Then i checked /etc/user_attr file and found that root user was considered as a role but not a normal user
root@solaris:/# cat /etc/user_attr
#
# Copyright (c) 1999, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
#
# The system provided entries are stored in different files
# under "/etc/user_attr.d". They should not be copied to this file.
#
# Only local changes should be stored in this file.
#
root::::type=role
So i directly logged in to administrator account and modified the type from role to normal and it worked fine
-bash-4.4$ su - root
Password:
Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 11.4 Aug 2018
root@solaris:~#