root account expired --help

[James D. Parra]

Hello,

What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator". Any
way to correct this?

Thank you,

James

[McDougall, Marshall (FSH)]

Boot to Linux rescue. Mount your filesystem as instructed. Change your
password. Reboot. HTH

Regards, Marshall

-----Original Message-----
From: James D. Parra [mailto:***@MusicReports.com]
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:07 PM
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Subject: root account expired --help


Hello,

What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator". Any
way to correct this?

Thank you,

James
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[Mike Burger]

That's one way to go. Another is to boot into single mode, change the
root password, then "init 3" (or "init 5" if you run X on the system) and
go.

Post by McDougall, Marshall (FSH)
Boot to Linux rescue. Mount your filesystem as instructed. Change your
password. Reboot. HTH
Regards, Marshall
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Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:07 PM
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Subject: root account expired --help
Hello,
What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator". Any
way to correct this?
Thank you,
James

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[Ed Wilts]

Post by James D. Parra
What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator". Any
way to correct this?

Log into a user with sudo access, and the use usermod to change the
root's expiration flag.
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[alan]

Post by James D. Parra
Hello,
What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator". Any
way to correct this?

Hopefully you have physical access to the machine.

Boot the system with a recovery disc of some sort. (There is one for
Fedora, I believe. There are others on the net.)

Mount the disk with the /etc partition on it read/write. Edit /etc/shadow
and remove the password expiration information.

Don't forget to backup the old one in case you bjork it up.

[James D. Parra]

Interesting. There is one other user on this server with only login
credentials. How do I now if it has sudo access?

Thank you.

James


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:***@ewilts.org]
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:45 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: root account expired --help

Post by James D. Parra
What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator". Any
way to correct this?

Log into a user with sudo access, and the use usermod to change the
root's expiration flag.
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Post by James D. Parra
Interesting. There is one other user on this server with only login
credentials. How do I now if it has sudo access?

$ sudo -l
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[alan]

Post by James D. Parra
Interesting. There is one other user on this server with only login
credentials. How do I now if it has sudo access?

/etc/sudoers

Post by James D. Parra
Thank you.
James
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Subject: Re: root account expired --help

Post by James D. Parra
What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator". Any
way to correct this?

Log into a user with sudo access, and the use usermod to change the
root's expiration flag.

[James D. Parra]

I am curious, if I boot in init 1, and it asks for the root password, will
it give the same expired account error?

Thank you,

James


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Burger [mailto:***@bubbanfriends.org]
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:22 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: root account expired --help


That's one way to go. Another is to boot into single mode, change the
root password, then "init 3" (or "init 5" if you run X on the system) and
go.

Post by McDougall, Marshall (FSH)
Boot to Linux rescue. Mount your filesystem as instructed. Change your
password. Reboot. HTH
Regards, Marshall
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Subject: root account expired --help
Hello,
What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator". Any
way to correct this?
Thank you,
James

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[Mike Burger]

Personally, I've never been asked for a password when booting to single
user mode, either via reboot or "init 1".

Post by James D. Parra
I am curious, if I boot in init 1, and it asks for the root password, will
it give the same expired account error?
Thank you,
James
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:22 AM
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Subject: RE: root account expired --help
That's one way to go. Another is to boot into single mode, change the
root password, then "init 3" (or "init 5" if you run X on the system) and
go.

Post by McDougall, Marshall (FSH)
Boot to Linux rescue. Mount your filesystem as instructed. Change your
password. Reboot. HTH
Regards, Marshall
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:07 PM
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Subject: root account expired --help
Hello,
What a nice way to start a Monday. Tried to log in as root and received,
"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator". Any
way to correct this?
Thank you,
James

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[Reuben D. Budiardja]

Post by Mike Burger
Personally, I've never been asked for a password when booting to single
user mode, either via reboot or "init 1".

You have to be root first to be able to do 'init 1'. So reboot is the only way
in this case, and it will not ask for root password.

It's curious that the first few responds was to use linux rescue CD. I never
use linux rescue CD except when I need to fix the boot loader, wrong mount
point stuff that cause kernel panic (ie, after swapping harddrives), or the
system is really messed up that you can't even boot single mode. Most stuffs
can be fixed just by booting to single mode, easier than using linux rescue
CD.

RDB
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[Daniel Widyono]

Post by Reuben D. Budiardja
It's curious that the first few responds was to use linux rescue CD.

[...]

Post by Reuben D. Budiardja
system is really messed up that you can't even boot single mode. Most stuffs
can be fixed just by booting to single mode, easier than using linux rescue
CD.

It's not too curious if you always put this in your inittab:

~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin /dev/console

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Post by Mike Burger
Personally, I've never been asked for a password when booting to single
user mode, either via reboot or "init 1".

Post by James D. Parra
I am curious, if I boot in init 1, and it asks for the root password,

will

Post by James D. Parra
it give the same expired account error?

And that is why a box requires physical restriction.....if it needs to be
secure that is.

[Sites, Brad]

Post by James D. Parra
I am curious, if I boot in init 1, and it asks for the root password,
will it give the same expired account error?
Thank you,
James

init 1 does not require a password.

-Brad Sites