Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:05:23 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Rod Person <opensourcebeef@hotpop.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: root account expired error. Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030730220424.015de5f8@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <20030730200230.676bad58.opensourcebeef@hotpop.com>
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At 08:02 PM 7/30/2003 -0400, Rod Person wrote:
>Now when I long in as my normal user account and try to su to root I get
>the error message "sorry account expired". I can still long in as root,
>I just can't su to root. So how do I unexpire the root account.
Login as root from the console, and then chfn root. Also make sure there
are not 2 root accounts in your master.passwd file.
---Mike
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