Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:21:44 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS login - argh! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0502272114240.65931@nuumen.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0502172346420.47068@nuumen.pair.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0502170744500.27109@nuumen.pair.com> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0502172346420.47068@nuumen.pair.com>
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Follow-up Follow-up (for google'rs):
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Tom Huppi wrote:
> *NOTE* to those fighting these issues (and seeing this via google
> or some such...): There seems to be some sort of a bug which is
> tickled by this kind of fooling around. It manifests itself by
> setting the user's account expire time to 1969! This kept me
> occupied for _hours_ when I couldn't even get that user's account
> to let me log in when I made things complety local and unplugged
> the stupid machine from the network!
>
> Try: # chpass {user} to see what I mean.
This wasn't a bug per-se. More it was a result of my entering the
wrong items in the wrong fields when using 'vipw'. man(5) passwd
is what I should have done rather than relying on my faulty
memory.
At any rate, chpass(1) is a good utility to keep in mind if
struggle with logins that don't work.
Thanks,
- Tom
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