user expired - problems resetting

zum · Last edited by zum on Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:44 pm; edited 1 time in total

soz a n00b; but trying

whiles back installed and and setup server and added some accounts

issue is one of those accounts has expired and I'm having problems unlocking it

thought/tried (for user George)

1/ >user -e 2006-02-28 george
- but tells me user already exists

2/ >passwd -u george
- but does seemed to have cut the mastard

help appreciated
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dnas · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 35 Location: Belgium

zum, normally when you do

Maedhros · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
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zum · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:00 am Post subject:

seems the account has expired (user = george)

> web02 ~ # passwd -S george
> george P 12/28/2005 0 99999 7 -1

tried

> web02 ~ # passwd -u george
> Password changed.
> web02 ~ # passwd -S george
> george P 12/28/2005 0 99999 7 -1

but still no joy...
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zum · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject:

surely its just me being a nub

any bright suggestions?

really need to get this sorted
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

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zum · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:27 am Post subject:

help please

very nice of the mediators to keep moving my post around

but really I'd rather has some help :cry:

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zeuz · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:28 am Post subject:

I'm having the same problem as you, both root and my user has "expired", but I can still use them. crontab doesn't work though.

zum · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject:

glad its not only me then
would have though it was quiet a simple/common problem and there would be somewhere out with the knowledge to be able to set us straight...
but hey there I go trying to think again
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humbletech99 · Veteran Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 1229 Location: London

It would seem to indicate that you should be able to log in with this account.

According to the info given, the account was not locked, nor would it ever be. It also has a usable password according to the output.

If you can't log in, then do as root:

zum · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:43 pm Post subject:

thanks for the advise
it however has not helped
changing the users pass has not allowed them to reaccess the server
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humbletech99 · Veteran Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 1229 Location: London

Is it only this one user on the machine that cannot log in to this server? Are all the other users ok?

What happens exactly when you try to log in to this server with this user? Does it just exit and go back to the login silently or does it say authentication failed and then go back to the login?

If you have working root access check your logs for error messages regarding the authentication failure.

Post back and I'll help further.

zum · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject:

ok sorted...

web02 ~ # chage -l george
Last password change : Dec 30, 2005
Password expires : never
Password inactive : never
Account expires : Dec 11, 2005
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7

web02 ~ # chage -E 2006-01-31 george
chage -E 2006-01-31 george

web02 ~ # chage -l george
Last password change : Dec 30, 2005
Password expires : never
Password inactive : never
Account expires : Jan 31, 2006
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7

had to RTFM :twisted:

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