On Wednesday 13 February 2002 06:49 am, Ian wrote: > > When passwords time out...you are/should be prompted to change them. > They shouldn't just expire and lock users out.
I ran across this once while using COL 2.4. There is no warning that tells you that the user passwords have expired. Since I'm always changing something or upgrading some package, I use the root password a lot. Once logged in as root, I entered in the passwords for all the users and all was back to normal. I then unchecked the box "expires in" and had no problems since. I change user passwords on a regular basis, but when I decide and not when the system decides its time to roll them. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
