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Date:      Tue, 04 Nov 1997 09:51:07 +0100
From:      Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se>
To:        Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I'm being locked out although password is fine! 
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19971104095106.00711c18@lda>

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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
>> 
>



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