physics - 5:08 pm on Aug 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

A user account password expired and I cannot change it, even as root!

#root# su theuser
You are required to change your password immediately (password aged)

Then ... nothing! I have to type control-c. I've also tried
$passwd theuser
Changing password for user theuser.

And again that's it. Any advice? This is a critical user on this system and some programs won't start without it. If I remove the user and add them back will that break anything else?

It's a Fedora box.