From: t2372ca@cd1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Martin Rast) Subject: Re: Setting up user accounts Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 12:56:01 GMT
bilan@cps.msu.edu (Thomas J Bilan) writes:
>I couldn't find adduser in my SLS distribution so I am trying to add users
...
>Whe I played around with the /etc/shadow file I got to log in but it told
>me my password had expired and was going to let me change it but then said
>I couldn't, the password was locked.
Perhaps the problem is here: try to delete all password-info from /etc/shadow
and remove all stuff after the password; the entry should be like the
root-entry. Then there will be no expire at all; if the password is not given
in /etc/shadow You should be able to login only with Your User-Name.
Try !
If it's working, You should read 'man shadow' for understanding what useradd
has done wrong !?
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