SYSTEM account gets locked automatically

Hi,
Recently I started the oem agent on one of the box. Since then, the system account gets locked frequently.
Can you please guide how can I investigate on this ?
Also, I checked the failed accounts in recent times and I can see someone is connecting from terminal "pts/4".
Please help to resolve this asap.
Regards,
Harry

Please specify your OS and DB versions.
Can you please guide how can I investigate on this ?
Also, I checked the failed accounts in recent times
and I can see someone is connecting from terminal
"pts/4".It means someone is trying to hack the system account. I assume you have configure audit options so you can log where this attempts come from. Even though you have already realized attacks come from pts/4 it will only have sense if you are able to discover in the few minutes what's the actual terminal attached from pts/4. On the other hand, it sounds to me that someone opened a session in a unix like box, and is able to see the os where the database resides. If this is the case, look for the output from the os command 'last' to find out further information about pts/4. If this hacker has reached the OS, it is a serious matter, it could quite easily get signed to the database if it is OS authenticated.
~ Madrid

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