From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 06:21:59 2003 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 4E90B16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 06:21:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from qsmtp4.america.net (qsmtp4.america.net [69.60.160.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3428F43D46 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 06:21:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trey@fastmail.fm) Received: from [65.82.45.189] (helo=fastmail.fm) by qsmtp4.america.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1Aabnk-0006R9-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 09:21:52 -0500 Message-ID: <3FEEE84F.80900@fastmail.fm> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 09:27:27 -0500 From: Trey Sizemore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3FEE1F5F.2040203@fastmail.fm> <3FEE2679.5030101@fastmail.fm> <3922.24.225.162.3.1072592615.squirrel@mail.webaries.com> In-Reply-To: <3922.24.225.162.3.1072592615.squirrel@mail.webaries.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Can't login to machine any more! 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: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:21:59 -0000 Matt Juszczak wrote: >Maybe you can find something here? > >http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2001-July/msg00170.html > > > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Trey Sizemore" >>To: "Micheal Patterson" >>Cc: >>Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:40 PM >>Subject: Re: Can't login to machine any more! >> >> >> >> >>>Micheal Patterson wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>----- Original Message ----- >>>>From: "Trey Sizemore" >>>>To: >>>>Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 6:10 PM >>>>Subject: Can't login to machine any more! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Just recently I can no longer login to my machine. When I get to the >>>>> >>>>> >>>gdm >>> >>> >>>>>screen and enter my username and password I get: >>>>> >>>>>"The system administrator has disabled your account." >>>>> >>>>>This happens with both my normal account and THE ROOT ACCOUNT! >>>>> >>>>>Is this recoverable and, if so, how? >>>>> >>>>>Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>You should be able to boot up in single user mode and correct this >>>> >>>> >>problem. >> >> >>>>I'm not sure what would cause it though. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Logged into single user mode and ran: >>> >>>#grep root /etc/passwd >>> >>>It showed the shell to be /bin/sh >>> >>>Did a reboot and tried to login with gdm again and got the same message. >>> >>> >>Sorry, missed the gdm part. Thought you were locked out of shell. >> >>-- >> >>Micheal Patterson >>Network Administration >>TSG Incorporated >>405-917-0600 >> >> >> >> > > > Yeah, I ran across this with a google search yesterday. I found that the account expiration dates for all my accounts were set to December 1969 somehow. Changing this fixed it, but I was having some other issues regarding logging in and out with X that were still unresolved, so I'm in the process now of doing a fresh install. Thanks for the info, everyone!