From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 02:21:53 2005 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 45FBC16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:21:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nuumen.pair.com (nuumen.pair.com [209.68.1.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF2D543D2D for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:21:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thuppi@nuumen.pair.com) Received: (qmail 70026 invoked by uid 55300); 28 Feb 2005 02:21:48 -0000 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:21:44 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi X-X-Sender: thuppi@nuumen.pair.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: NIS login - argh! 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: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:21:53 -0000 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