User Account getting locked frequently...

An User account which the developers are using is getting locked very frequently when they run some applications. They say they are giving the right password and username within the application. What should one be looking for? I am fed up by unlocking the account using ALTER USER username ACCOUNT UNLOCK;

I have also faced such kind of problems. Most of the developers forget how the application connects. they might have hard coded it or some time using a wrong parameter files.
Need to check who are all the users and how they are connecting and how the application is connecting to the database.
If there are more users then enable audit. Auditing will be the only solution.

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User account getting lock.

Hi All,
OS:RHEL
DB:10G
I am facing a weird problem, one of my db user account got locked yesterday and then i unlocked the same.
And today i faced the same problem and i did the same thing , the account was unlocked for sometime but it got locked agian.It seems that i is workinfg fine for sometime and due to some unknown activity the same is getting locked.
I want to know how can i get to the root of this.
Audit for the same DB is disabled.
Kindly help...
Regards,
Sphinx!

Have a look at your listener log.
Perhaps someone is trying to login with a wrong password.
Have a look at this link:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/network.102/b14266/policies.htm#i1007339
and at
FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS.

With Cisco Secure ACS 4.2 User accounts gets locked at first instance of wrong credentials even if configured for 3 attempts

Hello Everybody,
I am working with Cisco Secure ACS 4.2 and it is integrated with Active Directory at a Windows 2008 R2 functional level, user accounts that are set with lockout parameters (3 incorrect attempts) are locked out prematurely after the user enters the wrong credentials just once, the integration is done via LDAP.
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Hello Scott,
Thanks for your answer. However we checked the ACS logs and it shows that we entered bad credentials just once, but in the Active Directory our account sometimes is blocked because we get at least 2 and sometimes 3 failures. This problem is only presented when we authenticate Cisco devices or through VPN, in normal circumstances, when users enter bad credentials on their computers, it works fine.
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How to find if an user account is locked in weblogic server or not?

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I am using jdev 11.1.2.2.
SO i have set in web logic that if a user inputs login information wrongly his account will be locked.
How can i identify if the user account is locked.
Write now if the user account gets locked after say five invalid login attempts and user tries to enter correct login information its throwing exception . But i want to display to the user that his account is locked instead of the exception being thrown . How can i do it ? the following the login code i use
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chk this
http://vtkrishn.com/2011/09/27/implementing-userlockout-using-oam/

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.
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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

MII UserID gets locked frequently

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I have created a MII user through which PI post messages to MII MesageListener. This user is getting locked frequently so PI fails to post the messages. Can anyone tell me why the userID gets locked frequently? I am using MII version 12.1.6
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In cases that I have seen, it is usually some job folks forgot about that did not get the password updated when it changed. A scheduled job is frequently the problem, but not always as I have seen message listener jobs which were causing the problems or even webpage invoked transactions.
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Mike

Oracle user account is getting locked frequently

Hi everyone!!!
I am using Oracle 11g on Linux . I have user named "XXX" to whom I have assigned a DEFAULT profile. The Password parameters in DEFAULT profile are as follow.
Resource Name                                      Resource                                 Limit
FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS                    PASSWORD                            20
PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME                        PASSWORD                            UNLIMITED
PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME                      PASSWORD                           UNLIMITED
PASSWORD_REUSE_TIME                   PASSWORD                            UNLIMITED
PASSWORD_REUSE_MAX                   PASSWORD                             UNLIMITED
I don't know why my user is getting locked continuously. Even i haven't reached Failed_login_attempts (20). Each time I require to unlock user account as SYS user and then I can connect as XXX user.
And another thing that I want to know is when user account's status is set to LOCKED, EXPIRED, EXPIRED & LOCKED and LOCKED(TIME).
Thanks & Regards
Tushar Lapani

Hi,
can you tell me the exact db version?
As explained in MOS notes:
DBA_USERS.ACCOUNT_STATUS shows LOCKED after FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS Is Breached (Doc ID 284344.1)
How to Interpret the ACCOUNT_STATUS Column in DBA_USERS (Doc ID 260111.1)
Expected behaviour is:
1. Oracle release is <= 11.1.0.7.
DBA_USERS.ACCOUNT_STATUS = LOCKED(TIMED) whenever the number of failed login attempts is > FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS
2. Oracle release is >= 11.2 and PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME = unlimited:
DBA_USERS.ACCOUNT_STATUS = LOCKED whenever the number of failed login attempts is > FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS
3. Oracle release is >= 11.2 and PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME = <some fix value>
DBA_USERS.ACCOUNT_STATUS = LOCKED(TIMED) whenever the number of failed login attempts is > FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS
Note
that 10.2.0.5 displays the same behavior as 11.2, because the fix that changed the behavior in 11.2 was introduced in 10.2.0.5.
So I suggest you to follow MOS note
Finding the source of failed login attempts. (Doc ID 352389.1)
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User in CTSDEPLOY RFC getting locked frequently

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We have been observing that the user in RFC destination CTSDEPLOY getting locked frequently whenever we transport a rerquest from development to quality in our PI system. The transport would go fine, if we unlock that user. The user we are maintaining in CTSDEPLOY is J2EE_ADMIN. When we test the RFC in our quality system, it works fine. But only when we transport to quality, it is getting locked.
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>>>We dont have RFC destination with name CTSDEPLOY in our PI development system. Do we need to have RFC destination there too.
no need for that in DEV
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destination -> sap.com/com.sap.tc.di.CTSserver under
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J2EE_ADMIN user getting locked frequently

Hi SAP Guru's,
The user J2EE_ADMIN in our nw2004s system is getting locked frequently. We have changed the password of this user in ABAP via SU01 & in JAVA in the secure store via configtool. The server was re-booted after doing these changes. Still the user J2EE_ADMIN is getting locked frequently. Also in SM21, we have a log <b>"J2EE_ADMIN locked due to incorrect logon"</b> for this locking which mentions the user as SAPJSF (Communication user between ABAP & JAVA).
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Any help on this will be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sanjeev.

have you solve this issue? we have the same!
every half hour (xx:51:00 and xx:29:00), the J2EE_ADMIN user is locked by user SAPJSF transaction KRNL from the local host (terminal).
We have changed the pass in secure store in configtool to the pass we used in abap.
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SYSTEM user's accounts get locks automatically

Oracle SYSTEM user's account gets lock automatically after every 4-5 days. I user to run following query which unlocks the account:
SQL:\>ALTER USER system ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
How I can stop this happening? I am not able to alter profile for unlimited attempts also.
Is there any workout, please help me....

In my opinion, you should immediately find out who constantly tries to guess the password of system instead of making it possible for him to try that indefinitely without locking the account. That is like switching off the annoying alert sirene if someone constantly tries to break in.
You should
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Connected.
SQL> alter system set audit_trail=true scope=spfile;
System altered.
SQL> startup force
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 313860096 bytes
Fixed Size                  1299624 bytes
Variable Size             285215576 bytes
Database Buffers           20971520 bytes
Redo Buffers                6373376 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
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         0
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ERROR:
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Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.
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Connected.
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COUNT(*)
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AD account getting locked out after password change in Jabber

When user changes his network credentials and does not update them in Jabber. Jabber will still try to connect to phone services and voicemail with the old credentials which is leading to their account getting locked in AD after three attempts.
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Hi,
We are seeing a similar issue after the user has changed their AD password the account repeatedly gets locked out when they try to log into Jabber.
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Email alert to User on Outlook When their SAP user account is locked

Hello Gurus,
In a effort to reduce overhead to User Admin team, we are planning to automate notifications to SAP user.
Requirement Is: Email alert user when their account is locked on SAP for whatever reason.
I did some research on help sites, and I read people saying this is acheivable and ABAP+Security team can make it happen. Before I take this route I want to hear suggestions from our native SDN experts.
Your thoughts?
Thank You.

Purpose of Sending the mail in outlook.
I believe the reason is additional security. If for example the login is attempted by some other person and the account gets locked then the user will be notified on outlook and he will get alerted.
How to Achieve this?
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This method will use your custom Function Module where you can set the user's email ID for the notification to be sent.
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Auto config is getting failed and apps user is getting locked while running autoconfig on dbTier

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1) I have cold cloning.after cloning i tried to run autoconfig on the db side.i am getting the following error
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===========================================================================
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[AutoConfig Error Report]
The following report lists errors AutoConfig encountered during each
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[AutoConfig Error Report]
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Please help me out

Hi Hussein
SQL> select username,account_status from dba_users where username='APPS';
USERNAME                       ACCOUNT_STATUS
APPS                           LOCKED
SQL> select username,account_status from dba_users where username='APPLSYS';
USERNAME                       ACCOUNT_STATUS
APPLSYS                        OPEN
SQL> alter user apps account unlock;
User altered.
SQL> select username,account_status from dba_users where username='APPS';
USERNAME                       ACCOUNT_STATUS
APPS                           OPEN
SQL> select username,account_status from dba_users where username='APPLSYS';
USERNAME                       ACCOUNT_STATUS
APPLSYS                        OPEN
SQL>
After running the adautoconfig facing the same issue and apps user is getting locked
SQL> select username,account_status from dba_users where username='APPS';
USERNAME                       ACCOUNT_STATUS
APPS                           LOCKED

User id getting locked everyday

Dear All,
User Id getting locked everyday having profile SAP_ALL and SAP_NEW.I m not getting any clue why its getting locked everyday.
I tried to check RFC and background job job also but i m not able to find.everyday i have to unlock it.
Kindly suggest me how to check.
Regards
Adil

Hi,
Such issue mostly happens due to wrong attempt of login in SAP system client with that SAP User id either through RFC login, external- program, script,etc...
If you have checked all the RFCs login settings and not able to found the login attempt, then Enable [SAP Security audit log|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/c7/69bcb7f36611d3a6510000e835363f/content.htm] using SM19, SM20 and analyze the logs for that SAP User id only.
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SAPJSF user is getting locked

Hi,
We are using SAP BI 7.0 system on AIX and DB2 combination. I am getting one problem for the past 1 month. our BI consultant is running queries from BI Portal. while running queries from BI Portal, they are getting one error saying that " java i-view runtime error, if this error persists please contact your system administrator". while they are getting this error, I have observed that user SAPJSF is locked due to incorrect logons from ABAP level. once I unlock the user and refresh the BI portal page we are getting in and able to continue with our work.
This problem is repeating for every 3 weeks or 15 days ( but not for the constant time period). for the time being we are unlocking the user and continuing with work. but I want to know why this user is getting locked. it is only happening in DEV system but not in the remaining systems.we have run the support desk tool in BI DEV system and we made sure that we are not encountering any configuration problems.
roles attached to this uder is:
SAP_BC_JSF_COMMUNICATION
SAP_BC_JSF_COMMUNICATION_RO
profiles:SAP_ALL
please help me in this to solve this problem permanantely.
Mohan K

Hi Mohan
SAPJSF user is used for communication between UME and ABAP user management.
Please check the following links:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwce10/helpdata/en/45/af3ac012d32e78e10000000a155369/content.htm
and
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/45/af3ac012d32e78e10000000a155369/content.htm
I hope this helps
Regards
Chen

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