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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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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
>