From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 19:05:27 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 475A737B401 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:05:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95CD643F3F for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:05:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house.sentex.net (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6V25MAN010527; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:05:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030730220424.015de5f8@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:05:23 -0400 To: Rod Person From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20030730200230.676bad58.opensourcebeef@hotpop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: 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 02:05:27 -0000 At 08:02 PM 7/30/2003 -0400, Rod Person wrote: >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. Login as root from the console, and then chfn root. Also make sure there are not 2 root accounts in your master.passwd file. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike