From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 6 15:38:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B8216A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 15:38:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ssa9.serverconfig.com (ssa9.serverconfig.com [209.51.129.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1605E43D31 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 15:38:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ly5t5@allthingscomputed.com) Received: from dsl027-161-197.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.161.197] helo=[192.168.1.3]) by ssa9.serverconfig.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AzlNP-000576-7v; Sat, 06 Mar 2004 18:38:39 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) In-Reply-To: <9CD0C6BA-6FBF-11D8-942C-000A95A56C00@allthingscomputed.com> References: <9CD0C6BA-6FBF-11D8-942C-000A95A56C00@allthingscomputed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <63F9D0D4-6FC7-11D8-942C-000A95A56C00@allthingscomputed.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Barry Hawkins Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 18:38:37 -0500 To: freebsd-questions , Gerard Seibert X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ssa9.serverconfig.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - allthingscomputed.com Subject: Re: pam_acct_mgmt(): user account has expired (was Re: Login Problem) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 23:38:42 -0000 On Mar 6, 2004, at 5:42 PM, Barry Hawkins wrote: > On Mar 4, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >> I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 - RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 >> >> It seems that I can no longer log into my system. Upon boot-up, the >> usually login appears. I enter my normal login and then my password. >> I am >> then greeted with this error message: >> >> BudMan login: pam_acct_mgmt(1): user account has expired >> Login Incorrect. >> >> Shortly afterwards I receive these error messages: >> >> BudMan cron[538] _secure_path: /usr/home/ges/.login_conf is not owned >> by >> root >> >> The last error message will repeat with the number getting >> progressively >> higher. >> >> This is a fresh install of FreeBSD. The only thing I added was KDE 3.2 >> today. Can anyone tell me what has happened and how do I get back >> into my >> system? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Gerard Seibert >> gerard-seibert@rcn.com >> > Gerard, > I am having a similar issue logging in on 5.2.1-RC2, and it seems to > have happened around the time I added a user and some groups using the > KUser utility in KDE. All accounts, including root, are "expired". > My error message is: > > login: pam_acct_mgmt(): user accound has expired > Login Incorrect. > > Then, a bit later, I receive messages like the following: > > kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0008 != 0000) > kernel: psmintr: discard a byte(1) > > On a side note, the message really does display "accound" instead of > "account"; it's not a typo of mine. Searches on the following phrases > within the questions and newbies mailing lists produced no leads for > me to research: > 'pam_acct_mgmt(): user accound has expired' > 'pam_acct_mgmt():' > 'psmintr' > I booted into single-user mode (I was amazed to find that Ctrl-Alt-Delete shutdown the server from the login prompt.) and took a look at /etc/master.passwd. At the end of one user's entry for shell, which was /bin/sh, there was "swd 91%" appended to the end. I wonder if something happened to the file and that's why I am seeing this password expired issue? Being schooled, -- Barry C. Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.allthingscomputed.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com