CentOS 7- Root account getting locked

samuelraj · Post by **samuelraj** » 2021/09/06 04:21:46

Hi All,

I am facing a strange issue on my CentOS VM which is hosted on Google Cloud. The root account getting locked whenever the servers are rebooted after some time. I checked the root user password config. It seems to be ok.

Please refer to the attached.

Is there anyone facing a similar issue?

Post by **TrevorH** » 2021/09/06 17:30:44

Nothing attached.

Never used google cloud but some providers disable root and make you use a non-root userid that then has full sudo ability.

samuelraj · Post by **samuelraj** » 2021/09/08 09:04:40

Thanks for your reply TrevorH.

My apologies, I have attached the root user password policy.

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jlehtone · Post by **jlehtone** » 2021/09/08 12:26:33

Is the "lock" really in passwd/shadow, or is it in sshd config, PAM access, etc?

Post by **TrevorH** » 2021/09/08 12:34:00

As I said, I would suspect this is policy at GCP. Check in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg and see if it contains e.g. "disable_root: 1"

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