Trusted Solaris Administrator's Procedures

To Prevent Account Locking for All User Accounts

  1. Assume the Security Administrator role and go to an ADMIN_LOW workspace.

    See "To Log In and Assume a Role", if needed.

  2. At ADMIN_LOW, use the Admin Editor action to open the /etc/security/policy.conf file for editing.

    See "To Edit a Local File", if needed.


    
    
  3. Search for the string LOCK_AFTER_RETRIES.


    LOCK_AFTER_RETRIES=yes
  4. Change yes to no, or if the string is not present in the file, add the following.


    LOCK_AFTER_RETRIES=no
  5. Save and quit the file.


    :wq