{"id":13,"date":"2023-03-06T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?p=13"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:00:49","slug":"unlock-linux-user-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Unlock Linux User Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Problem<\/h2>\n<p>What can you do if you accidentally typed in your password incorrectly too many times, and your user account is locked?  <\/p>\n<h2>Solution<\/h2>\n<p>If you control the machine on which your account is locked, or have a friend who does, run the following command as <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">root<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">$ faillock --reset --user username<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2>Acknowledgements<\/h2>\n<p>The author acknowledges the traditional custodians of the Daruk and the<br \/>\nEora People and pays respect to the Elders past and present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem What can you do if you accidentally typed in your password incorrectly too many times, and your user account is locked? Solution If you control the machine on which your account is locked, or have a friend who does, run the following command as root: $ faillock &#8211;reset &#8211;user username Acknowledgements The author acknowledges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,13,19,20],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux-system-admin","tag-account","tag-linux","tag-unlock","tag-user"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheerfulprogramming.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}