On: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 10:29:18 -0400 (EDT) Paul Miller writes:
>
> Some of my users' accounts are getting disabled by the system. I
> have not set any expiration dates, etc.. How do I re-enable them
> and prevent this from occurring again?
You should take a look at the values in the /etc/shadow files (their
meaning is explained in man shadow). I have seen Unix systems that
disable an account after half a year by default. Don't know if Debian
behaves the same with some version of adduser or useradd command.
Maybe you can use the passwd -u command to unlock the account. Run
passwd -S prior to check the current status of the user. The
inactivity period should be set to -1 for no expiry of the account.
Torsten
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