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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 09:27:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se>
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Subject: Re: I'm being locked out although password is fine! 
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That doesnt make any sense.  If setting lets you in, then someone or
something is unsetting it on your again.

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Peter Olsson wrote:

> Thanks for your reply!
> 
> This is not for the root account, this is for my user-account.
> 
> I'm definitely not accidentally changing it and I am pretty
> sure nobody is playing a trick on me. The last time this happened
> it was only a few minutes between two lock-outs (see below)
> and when I checked with "last", nobody had been in the machine
> except me.
> 
> Also I checked with "ls -lt" in /etc and nothing was changed
> recently, that is all passwd-files and pwd-files were untouched
> since my last password-change.
> 
> Peter Olsson   pol@leissner.se
> 
> 10:18 1997-11-03 -0800 Steve Hovey wrote:
> >This for the root account?  Sounds to me like you are either accidentally
> >changing it - OR - someone is playing a trick on you.
> >
> >On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Peter Olsson wrote:
> >
> >> I'm running a lot of FreeBSD:s and in one of them (2.2.1-RELEASE)
> >> I get locked out now and then.
> >> 
> >> The machine refuses to accept my login although nothing has
> >> changed in /etc (ls -lt shows no recent changes).
> >> 
> >> I has come to the very irritating point that I have to have
> >> two logins on this machine so I can enter with my second
> >> login, do su, and change password on my first login. After I
> >> change password (to what it already is or should be!) everything
> >> works fine again.
> >> 
> >> Yesterday I was locked out, changed password, did one ftp
> >> and one telnet to the machine and the next time I tried
> >> ftp I was locked out again. Only a few minutes after I
> >> changed my password!!!
> >> 
> >> This has only ever happenend to me on this machine and
> >> it only happens to this login.
> >> 
> >> This is very strange, is there some explanation to this?
> >> 
> >> Thanks for your time!
> >> 
> >> Peter Olsson     pol@leissner.se
> >> 
> >
>