From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 17:03:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DFE37B401 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:03:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from twix.hotpop.com (twix.hotpop.com [204.57.55.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6632143F85 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from opensourcebeef@hotpop.com) Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [204.57.55.16]) by twix.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C4C0F4F3CF6 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ROLAND (c-67-163-195-9.client.comcast.net [67.163.195.9]) by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF5E1A028A for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:02:30 -0400 From: Rod Person To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030730200230.676bad58.opensourcebeef@hotpop.com> Organization: Open Source Beef X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Subject: root account expired error. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:03:27 -0000 I don't know what happened, but here it is. I added a new user. After the adduesr finished I got an error that the directory /var/spool/mail/newuser could not be created. That seems to have hosed something, because after that another user account's password was lost/changed. I used passwd command to fix that. Now when I long in as my normal user account and try to su to root I get the error message "sorry account expired". I can still long in as root, I just can't su to root. So how do I unexpire the root account. -- Rod @ Home So No Cool Signature http://opensourcebeef.bsd.st