What account is locked out? Your own personal ID, you mean? And what security system are you running? RACF, or something else?
If you're the only one locked out, usually one of the security admins could reset your password. You would have thought of that already, though I don't see where you mentioned it. And depending on your security privileges, they may not be authorized to. But if you have elevated privileges and the admins can't fix you up, it's very likely you're able to submit a batch job under the authority of the main security ID (IBMUSER if you're running RACF); that will always have the authority to reset your password no matter who you are. Wait, silly me, maybe you cannot submit a batch job because you're locked out. I wouldn't be surprised if others have that authority, too, though; they could submit the job for you. This is all from the point of view of an MVS guy; VM is mystery territory to me. Could be none of the above applies in VM. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* If you're not paying for it you're not the customer, and if you're not the customer, you must be the merchandise. -about "free" internet services */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Karl Severson Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2022 19:51 ​Embarrassed to report that I locked myself out of my system. System is running VM/ESA 2.3 with VM:Manager 2.6 and running the Rules Facility. Broadcom is no help as we don't have maintenance on a product that has reached end of life as Broadcom won't support it because of that. What I have tried: I thought I set up VM:Operator to be able to link nopass to VM:Secure 1b0 but for some reason that doesn't work. I also can't link to VMXSYSAD 191, where we stash a nightly backup of the directory. I've tried the LINK command and the system wants a READ password and that doesn't work as I don't know what it is.I think someone undid things that I set up before I retired, because I knew I would be back. Link attempt to VMX 1b0 fails because of some RULE. We use logonby so we only have to know OUR own account password but I've managed to lock myself out of my account so no dice in anything I try. What is left? There are a few privileged accounts left that I might try (OP1) for instance, but if someone changed its password to something other than OP1, my plan will fail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
