encyclo
msg:3422361 | 1:33 am on Aug 15, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Totally untested, but have you tried the usermod to change the expiry date? usermod is available on my Ubuntu, Google says it's available in Fedora too. Something like: usermod yourusername -e 2008-08-14 (See man usermod for a bit more info).
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physics
msg:3423002 | 5:06 pm on Aug 15, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Turns out it was a strange case. On boot there is a command in rc.local to run a program as this user. I.e.
su -c "/bin/theprogram" theuser
This must have triggered the prompt to change the password and because of that I couldn't do anything to the user password (even change the expiration date but thanks encyclo ;) ).
So I needed to kill the su -c process by doing, e.g.:
ps auxww ¦ grep start
root 1468 0.0 0.0 5160 1104? S 11:11 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/rc3.d/S99local start
root 1616 0.0 0.0 5092 1028? S 11:11 0:00 su -c /bin/theprogram theuser
root 5222 0.0 0.0 4820 664 pts/0 S 16:19 0:00 grep start
then kill the pid's of the offenders.
Then I changed the password and set the expiration date to be a long time from now ;) Luckily I found this which is what tipped me off on the solution:
[ashterix.blogspot.com...]
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linsys
msg:3427527 | 3:21 am on Aug 21, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Just as a side note it doesn't look like you are changing the user as root directly. There is no need to root># su username
user>$ password username As root you can just root># password username
new password:
new password: That will work.
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physics
msg:3427550 | 4:23 am on Aug 21, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Nope, I tried
passwd username
and it didn't work.
See the fifth line of text in my first post ;)
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linsys
msg:3428248 | 8:05 pm on Aug 21, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Oh sorry, when you posted: $passwd theuser That ment to me that you where not root, since root would be #passwd theuser
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