TechFly,
I have worked in a similar situation. The solution that I implemented was to change the service account to something no one knew and to have people sudo su - <user>. It took quite a while because there were a number of scripts that had the password hard coded (and in the clear) that needed to be addressed. It took some time and some comprimises needed to be made but the end result was satisfactory.

My recommendation to you regarding your code is don't write scripts like this. You will end up copy/pasting all over the place. Instead, write modules that expose AIX admin commands in a consistent manner that can be re-used in script after script. Isn't the following more appealing: 

...

my $account = AIX::Account->new($user);
if ($account->locked) {
    print "Attempting to unlock account for '$user'\n";
    if (! $account->unlock) {
        print "Failed to unlock account for '$user': ", $account->last
+_error;
    }
    else {
        print "Account for '$user' successfully unlocked\n";
    }
}
else {
    print "Account for '$user' was not locked\n";
}

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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: AIX reset users by Limbic~Region
in thread AIX reset users by TechFly

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