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Date:      Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:40:25 -0500
From:      Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm>
To:        Micheal Patterson <micheal@tsgincorporated.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't login to machine any more!
Message-ID:  <3FEE2679.5030101@fastmail.fm>
In-Reply-To: <befd01c3ccd9$41b81b20$0201a8c0@dredster>
References:  <3FEE1F5F.2040203@fastmail.fm> <befd01c3ccd9$41b81b20$0201a8c0@dredster>

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Micheal Patterson wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Trey Sizemore" <trey@fastmail.fm>
>To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
>Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:10 PM
>Subject: Can't login to machine any more!
>
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>>Just recently I can no longer login to my machine. When I get to the gdm
>>screen and enter my username and password I get:
>>
>>"The system administrator has disabled your account."
>>
>>This happens with both my normal account and THE ROOT ACCOUNT!
>>
>>Is this recoverable and, if so, how?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>    
>>
>
>You should be able to boot up in single user mode and correct this problem.
>I'm not sure what would cause it though.
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Logged into single user mode and ran:

#grep root /etc/passwd

It showed the shell to be /bin/sh

Did a reboot and tried to login with gdm again and got the same message.



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