Ted Ozolins wrote: > > On Saturday 09 February 2002 07:14 pm, Net Llama wrote: > > I think a key piece of info that is missing here is whether he has > > simply forgetten the password(s), or if something occured to render > > authentication broken. > > > > Tinkering with /etc/shadow may not be the best idea, especially if this > > is simply a matter of a forgetten password, where booting into single > > user mode would be the ideal fix. > > > > I thought that in an earlier post it did state that " I have forgotten my > password" I'm assuming that he meant the "root" password. I still think this > is nothing more than client passwords timing out.
When passwords time out...you are/should be prompted to change them. They shouldn't just expire and lock users out. -- Linux SxS [http://sxs.homeip.net/] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
