[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389183 it has been changed in debian that way. Don't know if it has been intentional introduced to Ubuntu. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
the original intention of upstream has been to prevent ssh access where the user has been locked. Maybe a solution is to advance the patch to expire the account only if $USER != root That way the original intention is preserved without this somewhat regression. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
PS. Debian users also stumpleupon this change: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Seems to me that chfn should not be trying to reauthenticate the calling user. Authentication is handled by the login program, so it should not also be done by chfn. A user that is unable to login for any reason ( could also just not be allowed on this tty or something ) should still be able to chfn. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Also affects: shadow (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: Unknown => New -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/21922 This means in debian it will be fixed shortly. SRU anybody? -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: New => Fix Released -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
packages.debian.org already has passwd 1:4.1.1-3 changelog (the parts that matters here): * debian/patches/494_passwd_lock-no_account_lock: Restore the previous behavior of passwd -l (which changed in #389183): only lock the user's password, not the user's account. Also explicitly document the differences. This restores a behavior common with the previous versions of passwd and with other implementations. Closes: #492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
summary: * cronjobs are broken for system that has a 'passwd -l root' with hardy http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 * the implematation of the patch that changed 'passwd -l' is broken: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 * + the confusion it causes at users-side due to unexpeted behaviour. All of this is fixed in debian now. For hardy this all is imho a serve regression. Pls devs fix it. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Forgot to mention: The error is _not_ there when I unlock the root account with 'sudo passwd root'. chfn fails only when root is locked via 'passwd -l root'. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Changing the package from 'adduser' to 'shadow' as the actual command which fails is /usr/bin/chfn which originates from the shadow source package. ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: adduser => shadow -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
I have the same error, when trying to use chfn. This also has the neat effect, that it breaks installation of mysql-server, as the pre-install script fails. This is the command, which fails during the mysql-server pre-installation script: $ sudo /usr/bin/chfn -f 'MySQL Server' mysql Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed I get the same error when trying to chfn any other user or use adduser: $ sudo adduser foobar Adding user `foobar' ... Adding new group `foobar' (1001) ... Adding new user `foobar' (1001) with group `foobar' ... Creating home directory `/home/foobar' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn foobar' returned error code 1. Exiting. I too started with a non-disabled root acount, because I installed Ubuntu via debootstrap (no dmraid support in any of Ubuntu's installers). Thus I locked the root account via 'passwd -l root' later just as aledin did. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
I don't think there is a bug. This looks like a configuration issue. When it is called, chfn authenticates the calling user (root), and then check if the calling user's is valid. Being root is sufficient to get authenticated (pam_rootok is loaded in /etc/pam.d/chfn), but /etc/pam.d/comman-account will still check that the account is valid, and in your case it is no more valid (because of the passwd -l root) You should unlock the root account (passwd --unlock root), then lock the root's password (usermod --lock root) -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Yes, this is an configuration issue. By default Ubuntu's root account is disabled and chfn should surely handle this configuration and just work. But it does not. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo tells to execute 'passwd -l root' to "re-disable" the root account. As I understand it this is Ubuntu's default configuration and chfn fails to work with it. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Visibility changed to: Public ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security issue -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Me too. I have this problem with adduser from the time when I enabled the root user (sudo passwd root) and then disabled it (sudo passwd -l root). Hope this info will help. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389183 it has been changed in debian that way. Don't know if it has been intentional introduced to Ubuntu. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
the original intention of upstream has been to prevent ssh access where the user has been locked. Maybe a solution is to advance the patch to expire the account only if $USER != root That way the original intention is preserved without this somewhat regression. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
PS. Debian users also stumpleupon this change: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Seems to me that chfn should not be trying to reauthenticate the calling user. Authentication is handled by the login program, so it should not also be done by chfn. A user that is unable to login for any reason ( could also just not be allowed on this tty or something ) should still be able to chfn. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Also affects: shadow (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: Unknown => New -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/21922 This means in debian it will be fixed shortly. SRU anybody? -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: New => Fix Released -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
packages.debian.org already has passwd 1:4.1.1-3 changelog (the parts that matters here): * debian/patches/494_passwd_lock-no_account_lock: Restore the previous behavior of passwd -l (which changed in #389183): only lock the user's password, not the user's account. Also explicitly document the differences. This restores a behavior common with the previous versions of passwd and with other implementations. Closes: #492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
summary: * cronjobs are broken for system that has a 'passwd -l root' with hardy http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 * the implematation of the patch that changed 'passwd -l' is broken: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 * + the confusion it causes at users-side due to unexpeted behaviour. All of this is fixed in debian now. For hardy this all is imho a serve regression. Pls devs fix it. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Forgot to mention: The error is _not_ there when I unlock the root account with 'sudo passwd root'. chfn fails only when root is locked via 'passwd -l root'. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Changing the package from 'adduser' to 'shadow' as the actual command which fails is /usr/bin/chfn which originates from the shadow source package. ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: adduser => shadow -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
I have the same error, when trying to use chfn. This also has the neat effect, that it breaks installation of mysql-server, as the pre-install script fails. This is the command, which fails during the mysql-server pre-installation script: $ sudo /usr/bin/chfn -f 'MySQL Server' mysql Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed I get the same error when trying to chfn any other user or use adduser: $ sudo adduser foobar Adding user `foobar' ... Adding new group `foobar' (1001) ... Adding new user `foobar' (1001) with group `foobar' ... Creating home directory `/home/foobar' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn foobar' returned error code 1. Exiting. I too started with a non-disabled root acount, because I installed Ubuntu via debootstrap (no dmraid support in any of Ubuntu's installers). Thus I locked the root account via 'passwd -l root' later just as aledin did. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
I don't think there is a bug. This looks like a configuration issue. When it is called, chfn authenticates the calling user (root), and then check if the calling user's is valid. Being root is sufficient to get authenticated (pam_rootok is loaded in /etc/pam.d/chfn), but /etc/pam.d/comman-account will still check that the account is valid, and in your case it is no more valid (because of the passwd -l root) You should unlock the root account (passwd --unlock root), then lock the root's password (usermod --lock root) -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Yes, this is an configuration issue. By default Ubuntu's root account is disabled and chfn should surely handle this configuration and just work. But it does not. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo tells to execute 'passwd -l root' to "re-disable" the root account. As I understand it this is Ubuntu's default configuration and chfn fails to work with it. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Visibility changed to: Public ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security issue -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Me too. I have this problem with adduser from the time when I enabled the root user (sudo passwd root) and then disabled it (sudo passwd -l root). Hope this info will help. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389183 it has been changed in debian that way. Don't know if it has been intentional introduced to Ubuntu. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
the original intention of upstream has been to prevent ssh access where the user has been locked. Maybe a solution is to advance the patch to expire the account only if $USER != root That way the original intention is preserved without this somewhat regression. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
PS. Debian users also stumpleupon this change: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Seems to me that chfn should not be trying to reauthenticate the calling user. Authentication is handled by the login program, so it should not also be done by chfn. A user that is unable to login for any reason ( could also just not be allowed on this tty or something ) should still be able to chfn. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Also affects: shadow (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: Unknown => New -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/21922 This means in debian it will be fixed shortly. SRU anybody? -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: New => Fix Released -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
packages.debian.org already has passwd 1:4.1.1-3 changelog (the parts that matters here): * debian/patches/494_passwd_lock-no_account_lock: Restore the previous behavior of passwd -l (which changed in #389183): only lock the user's password, not the user's account. Also explicitly document the differences. This restores a behavior common with the previous versions of passwd and with other implementations. Closes: #492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
summary: * cronjobs are broken for system that has a 'passwd -l root' with hardy http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 * the implematation of the patch that changed 'passwd -l' is broken: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 * + the confusion it causes at users-side due to unexpeted behaviour. All of this is fixed in debian now. For hardy this all is imho a serve regression. Pls devs fix it. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Forgot to mention: The error is _not_ there when I unlock the root account with 'sudo passwd root'. chfn fails only when root is locked via 'passwd -l root'. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Changing the package from 'adduser' to 'shadow' as the actual command which fails is /usr/bin/chfn which originates from the shadow source package. ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: adduser => shadow -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
I have the same error, when trying to use chfn. This also has the neat effect, that it breaks installation of mysql-server, as the pre-install script fails. This is the command, which fails during the mysql-server pre-installation script: $ sudo /usr/bin/chfn -f 'MySQL Server' mysql Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed I get the same error when trying to chfn any other user or use adduser: $ sudo adduser foobar Adding user `foobar' ... Adding new group `foobar' (1001) ... Adding new user `foobar' (1001) with group `foobar' ... Creating home directory `/home/foobar' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn foobar' returned error code 1. Exiting. I too started with a non-disabled root acount, because I installed Ubuntu via debootstrap (no dmraid support in any of Ubuntu's installers). Thus I locked the root account via 'passwd -l root' later just as aledin did. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
I don't think there is a bug. This looks like a configuration issue. When it is called, chfn authenticates the calling user (root), and then check if the calling user's is valid. Being root is sufficient to get authenticated (pam_rootok is loaded in /etc/pam.d/chfn), but /etc/pam.d/comman-account will still check that the account is valid, and in your case it is no more valid (because of the passwd -l root) You should unlock the root account (passwd --unlock root), then lock the root's password (usermod --lock root) -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Yes, this is an configuration issue. By default Ubuntu's root account is disabled and chfn should surely handle this configuration and just work. But it does not. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo tells to execute 'passwd -l root' to "re-disable" the root account. As I understand it this is Ubuntu's default configuration and chfn fails to work with it. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Me too. I have this problem with adduser from the time when I enabled the root user (sudo passwd root) and then disabled it (sudo passwd -l root). Hope this info will help. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Visibility changed to: Public ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security issue -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389183 it has been changed in debian that way. Don't know if it has been intentional introduced to Ubuntu. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
the original intention of upstream has been to prevent ssh access where the user has been locked. Maybe a solution is to advance the patch to expire the account only if $USER != root That way the original intention is preserved without this somewhat regression. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
PS. Debian users also stumpleupon this change: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Seems to me that chfn should not be trying to reauthenticate the calling user. Authentication is handled by the login program, so it should not also be done by chfn. A user that is unable to login for any reason ( could also just not be allowed on this tty or something ) should still be able to chfn. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Also affects: shadow (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: Unknown => New -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/21922 This means in debian it will be fixed shortly. SRU anybody? -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: New => Fix Released -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
packages.debian.org already has passwd 1:4.1.1-3 changelog (the parts that matters here): * debian/patches/494_passwd_lock-no_account_lock: Restore the previous behavior of passwd -l (which changed in #389183): only lock the user's password, not the user's account. Also explicitly document the differences. This restores a behavior common with the previous versions of passwd and with other implementations. Closes: #492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
summary: * cronjobs are broken for system that has a 'passwd -l root' with hardy http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 * the implematation of the patch that changed 'passwd -l' is broken: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 * + the confusion it causes at users-side due to unexpeted behaviour. All of this is fixed in debian now. For hardy this all is imho a serve regression. Pls devs fix it. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Forgot to mention: The error is _not_ there when I unlock the root account with 'sudo passwd root'. chfn fails only when root is locked via 'passwd -l root'. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Changing the package from 'adduser' to 'shadow' as the actual command which fails is /usr/bin/chfn which originates from the shadow source package. ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: adduser => shadow -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
I have the same error, when trying to use chfn. This also has the neat effect, that it breaks installation of mysql-server, as the pre-install script fails. This is the command, which fails during the mysql-server pre-installation script: $ sudo /usr/bin/chfn -f 'MySQL Server' mysql Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed I get the same error when trying to chfn any other user or use adduser: $ sudo adduser foobar Adding user `foobar' ... Adding new group `foobar' (1001) ... Adding new user `foobar' (1001) with group `foobar' ... Creating home directory `/home/foobar' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn foobar' returned error code 1. Exiting. I too started with a non-disabled root acount, because I installed Ubuntu via debootstrap (no dmraid support in any of Ubuntu's installers). Thus I locked the root account via 'passwd -l root' later just as aledin did. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
I don't think there is a bug. This looks like a configuration issue. When it is called, chfn authenticates the calling user (root), and then check if the calling user's is valid. Being root is sufficient to get authenticated (pam_rootok is loaded in /etc/pam.d/chfn), but /etc/pam.d/comman-account will still check that the account is valid, and in your case it is no more valid (because of the passwd -l root) You should unlock the root account (passwd --unlock root), then lock the root's password (usermod --lock root) -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Yes, this is an configuration issue. By default Ubuntu's root account is disabled and chfn should surely handle this configuration and just work. But it does not. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo tells to execute 'passwd -l root' to "re-disable" the root account. As I understand it this is Ubuntu's default configuration and chfn fails to work with it. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389183 it has been changed in debian that way. Don't know if it has been intentional introduced to Ubuntu. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
the original intention of upstream has been to prevent ssh access where the user has been locked. Maybe a solution is to advance the patch to expire the account only if $USER != root That way the original intention is preserved without this somewhat regression. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
PS. Debian users also stumpleupon this change: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Seems to me that chfn should not be trying to reauthenticate the calling user. Authentication is handled by the login program, so it should not also be done by chfn. A user that is unable to login for any reason ( could also just not be allowed on this tty or something ) should still be able to chfn. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Also affects: shadow (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: Unknown => New -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/21922 This means in debian it will be fixed shortly. SRU anybody? -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: New => Fix Released -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
packages.debian.org already has passwd 1:4.1.1-3 changelog (the parts that matters here): * debian/patches/494_passwd_lock-no_account_lock: Restore the previous behavior of passwd -l (which changed in #389183): only lock the user's password, not the user's account. Also explicitly document the differences. This restores a behavior common with the previous versions of passwd and with other implementations. Closes: #492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
summary: * cronjobs are broken for system that has a 'passwd -l root' with hardy http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 * the implematation of the patch that changed 'passwd -l' is broken: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 * + the confusion it causes at users-side due to unexpeted behaviour. All of this is fixed in debian now. For hardy this all is imho a serve regression. Pls devs fix it. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Forgot to mention: The error is _not_ there when I unlock the root account with 'sudo passwd root'. chfn fails only when root is locked via 'passwd -l root'. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Changing the package from 'adduser' to 'shadow' as the actual command which fails is /usr/bin/chfn which originates from the shadow source package. ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: adduser => shadow -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
I have the same error, when trying to use chfn. This also has the neat effect, that it breaks installation of mysql-server, as the pre-install script fails. This is the command, which fails during the mysql-server pre-installation script: $ sudo /usr/bin/chfn -f 'MySQL Server' mysql Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed I get the same error when trying to chfn any other user or use adduser: $ sudo adduser foobar Adding user `foobar' ... Adding new group `foobar' (1001) ... Adding new user `foobar' (1001) with group `foobar' ... Creating home directory `/home/foobar' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator chfn: PAM authentication failed adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn foobar' returned error code 1. Exiting. I too started with a non-disabled root acount, because I installed Ubuntu via debootstrap (no dmraid support in any of Ubuntu's installers). Thus I locked the root account via 'passwd -l root' later just as aledin did. ** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
I don't think there is a bug. This looks like a configuration issue. When it is called, chfn authenticates the calling user (root), and then check if the calling user's is valid. Being root is sufficient to get authenticated (pam_rootok is loaded in /etc/pam.d/chfn), but /etc/pam.d/comman-account will still check that the account is valid, and in your case it is no more valid (because of the passwd -l root) You should unlock the root account (passwd --unlock root), then lock the root's password (usermod --lock root) -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Yes, this is an configuration issue. By default Ubuntu's root account is disabled and chfn should surely handle this configuration and just work. But it does not. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo tells to execute 'passwd -l root' to "re-disable" the root account. As I understand it this is Ubuntu's default configuration and chfn fails to work with it. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389183 it has been changed in debian that way. Don't know if it has been intentional introduced to Ubuntu. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
the original intention of upstream has been to prevent ssh access where the user has been locked. Maybe a solution is to advance the patch to expire the account only if $USER != root That way the original intention is preserved without this somewhat regression. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
PS. Debian users also stumpleupon this change: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/330437 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
Seems to me that chfn should not be trying to reauthenticate the calling user. Authentication is handled by the login program, so it should not also be done by chfn. A user that is unable to login for any reason ( could also just not be allowed on this tty or something ) should still be able to chfn. -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Also affects: shadow (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
** Changed in: shadow (Debian) Status: Unknown => New -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/21922 This means in debian it will be fixed shortly. SRU anybody? -- 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
