Login expired
 

Please help me.
I am using RH 9. Just installed last 3 days, when come to login interface I use the same username and password as I created during installation, it's OK. But now it display the message "User account has expired!". Then I try the admin login, message "Authentication failed". ???

u must have set the xpiry option while creating the user account...

and abt ur admin account.. u r defenitely goofing up on username/password.. admin is always enabled.. try to remember the spelling correctly...

Regards
Xing

where is the xpiry option set?
i did wrote down the correct username and password, but still can't work.

check the preferences of a particular user and there is a "Account info " tab... expiry option is set over there ...

and if u r typing ur name and password correctly, there is no way u shud not login...

Regards
Xing

But I can't login to the system. My friend told me to format the PC, reinstall all thing and start again. Is that the only way?

seems to be the only way ...

Solve!
My friend solve it. He copy one file to replace the original one then restart. It work.
Thank you for those helping me.

Hi all,

I have the same problem, but with SuSE 9. I can't seem to figure out how to reactivate an expired account in YaST, although I'm not sure why this non-root account is disabled (especially since the "Disable account login" setting is unchecked).

TYIA

It would be pretty bad if one had to reinstall Linux simply because of a lost password. No, there are ways to set a new password or to change old ones but in this case they involve using the command line. I am not quite familiar with the RH procedure but I assume you would:
- start in single mode (=add "single" to your grub / lilo boot line)
- from the command line, issue the passwd command, which will set a new root password

Once you get that far, you can log in as root to set/change user passwords. Alternatively, you can set/change user password on the command line with adduser (or userradd) and passwd.

Well as far as I can tell the account that I normally login/SSH as has expired (I can still login and SSH as root). I can change the accounts password with YaST, but regardless of what I set it to when I try to SSH as that user it says the user expired. Interestingly enough, when I'm logged in as root in shell, I can't run passwd to change that user's password; it says the account has expired (a message I do not get from YaST). Again, TYIA for the help.