Re: [Scottish] SuSE 8.2 passwords question
Thanks for the reply! No joy on the 'su fiona' thing. It's probably irrelevant, but the permissions on her directory were slightly different from the other accounts - she had rwxrWxr-x, the other accounts rwxr-xr-x. But I may have changed that when putting her data on after installing 8.2 - can't remember. How can I check out the login shell? Or the correct permissions on her home directory etc? Or is it less trouble just to delete this 'fiona' account, create another one, and direct the new one to use her current home and data? (Does seem like cheating, though...) All her (and my) stuff is backed up, so I'm set up for some serious learning here! (And also way out of my depth) Thanks again - Neil. On Tuesday 26 August 2003 20:31, Colin McKinnon wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 22:15, neil sinclair wrote: Anyway, passwd -S says fiona PS 08/25/2003 1 30 10 5 I tried passwd -u fiona, but I got the message Cannot unlock the password for fiona! Maybe 'cos its not locked (passwd -S would report L instead of P). Looks like my man pages a re a little out of date - they don't say what the 'S' in the resplonse means. Checking my account reports PS too, and its working OK so I guess its not a password problem. You say it won't let you assign a new password? I'm guessing that you're doing this as 'root' since you've tried with Yast. If none, can you 'su fiona' (from your normal login, NOT root) using that password? If so, then there may be a problem with her login shell or permissions on her home directory. HTH Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] SuSE 8.2 passwords question
neil sinclair wrote: Thanks for the reply! No joy on the 'su fiona' thing. sorry if this sounds daft, but have you tried simply editing the password out of /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow as relevant? -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] SuSE 8.2 passwords question
On Monday 25 August 2003 22:15, neil sinclair wrote: Anyway, passwd -S says fiona PS 08/25/2003 1 30 10 5 I tried passwd -u fiona, but I got the message Cannot unlock the password for fiona! Maybe 'cos its not locked (passwd -S would report L instead of P). Looks like my man pages a re a little out of date - they don't say what the 'S' in the resplonse means. Checking my account reports PS too, and its working OK so I guess its not a password problem. You say it won't let you assign a new password? I'm guessing that you're doing this as 'root' since you've tried with Yast. If none, can you 'su fiona' (from your normal login, NOT root) using that password? If so, then there may be a problem with her login shell or permissions on her home directory. HTH Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] SuSE 8.2 passwords question
Hi - I'm having a problem with either a) my own ignorance or b) SuSE's password management. My problem is this: I set password expiry at 30 days, and my wife ignored the messages and didn't change her password. Not her fault, I should have shown her how, but let's not go there... Anyway, now SuSE will not let me set a new password for her, or at least will not log her on with her new password. I've tried YAST, and I've tried using PASSWD at the command line. PASSWD works fine for changing my password, and I can then log on using it. My wife's account acts differently - I can change the password (or at least I get no error messages), but no log on. If I log on at a terminal (CTRL-ALT-F2 type of terminal), I sometimes think I see a message saying that the account has expired, or something similar. Is there some magic I can do to reinstate the account? As a last resort I'll delete the old account, create a new one in the same name, and hope that there'll be no problems. I suspect there will be, so that is definitely my last port of call. Help! Thanks in advance, Neil. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
